The aim of the Every Child Matters programme is to give all children the support they need to:
- Be healthy
- Stay safe
- Enjoy and achieve
- Make a positive contribution
- Achieve economic well-being.
In order for care settings to achieve all these and make sure they follow this policy, the head teacher need to make sure that the school menu is healthy and appropriate for everyone person that’s attending the school because some children have a different religion and they are not allowed certain food, so the head teacher need to provide healthy food but also stay diverse by bring different variety of food, so people go a choice to what they want to eat. This doesn’t only goes apply for care settings, parents and guardians also need to make sure that they children are being health.
The care settings need to make sure that when children are in they premises, they are also safe, they can begin by make sure that after all children are in the premises, the school gates is closed and that people can’t enter without anyone knowing. Also teachers should not let the children go home without seeing the person that is responsible to take them.
Care setting should organise activities for children to enjoy during and after school such as football club, chores club and cheerleading club. From these activities children sometimes develop or discover a talent, which leads to them achieving a lot of things. Teachers should make sure that children participating make a positive contribution but this also goes for teachers, they need to positive contribution in order to receive one from the children.
Equal opportunities Act is another that has being develop with time and turned into a policy that people put more into practise. This policy gives the chance to people within the health care setting to get a job without being discriminated. And also for employers to give different a chance to different types of people for the job role they are applying to.
Some people are complaining about this policy, saying this policy is not being used by certain company and that they are not given the same amount of opportunity then other people.
I personally think that this policy has being great since it came out because more people with disability, different religious, different skin colour are being given the opportunity to do something or to work somewhere. And it just keeps getting better and better because more schools and shops have a different variety of people working within them.
However this policy does not just affect adults they also affect children’s and teenagers in school and college. It actually affects people in every single country.
The way I seeing this policy being used in St.Mary’s primary school was by hem giving the kids the same opportunity to watch certain shows that were being presented in the school and participate in contest that school organised or participate in.
To promote this policy, managers of care settings should make posters of the staff already working there and promote them by putting the posters on display and show people how they are being diverse, and given people equal opportunities. Then people will know that when they apply to jobs and don’t get it, it won’t be because the care setting is not given them equal opportunities.
Food safety Act is another policy that I saw St.Mary’s primary school applied to their service users. They promoted by asking children to give they opinions on food that they eat, and then at the end they make a menu out of it but still making sure to keep it healthy. The effectiveness of this policy is that the schools, nursery, care home and any other care setting should provide healthy food and cook food the right way so no service user can become poorly because of it.
So if there is a policy or a procedure that need to be followed, staff should firstly promote in order to receive a response to how people feel about using and following these new policies and procedures.
D2.
In this task I will justify recommendations made for minimising the risk, as appropriate, for the setting and service user groups.
In precious task I was asked to do some recommendation regarding my survey on the farm for the trip that the year five would be taking.
Know I would justify why this recommendations would be a safer place for the venue and a safe place to take children.
The first recommendations that I made was that every school visit the premises before taking that kids there, if the teachers don’t take the time to go and see the premises, how would they know that it is secure for the kids? How would they know that the kids would enjoy the place? How would they know which activity to take the kids on to? And most importantly how would they provide safety to kids when themselves they don’t know the dangers?
For all these reasons, it’s very important that teacher go and investigate the premises before taking the kids there in order to provide them safety and in order for the parents and guardians to trust the school with their children’s.
Also like I mention parents should know and receive letters about the trip three to two weeks before the actual day, I made this recommendation because I know that some parents wouldn’t like their children’s to go to the farm or that their children are allergic to certain things that are in the farm so they wouldn’t be able to go, this would give time for parents to alert teacher about the situation. But also because parents need to know the details about the trip weeks before so that they have time to discuss certain things with the teachers.
Also staff shouldn’t wait until the due day of the trip to collect the money for trip. This would cause a lot of running around and chasing after kids or even parents asking them about the money.
Some kids would be disappointed that they can no longer go on the trip because the teacher haven’t being bothered to collect the money for the trip and to make sure that every parent have paid for their child in order for them to go. The teacher that is organising the trip should really make sure that he/her has the right amount of staff that he/her needs when organising the trip. It’s very important that staff seat down and discuss how many staff would be accompanying the kids during that trip as soon as they know the amount of kids that would be attending that trip. Without the right amount of staff the security and safety provided for the kids wouldn’t be enough.
Staffs that are taking the kids to see or touch the animals needs to make sure that it is safe for the kids to go and see them, it’s very important that the staffs verify this because if they see that the kids may be in danger by going to see the animal’s then they need to find a way around it so that the kids are not in any danger. Or they just have to cancel that activity, because no matter how disappointed the kids are, their safety comes first.
Unit 3: Health, safety and security in Health and Social Care.
