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Child Protection Discussion Forum
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On the subject of Child Protection does anyone know if the current CRB system for checking people before they begin working with children has actually helped to reduce the number of child abuse incidents recorded in staffed settings?
Posted by: Mike, childcare development worker, wirral local authority, 08 May 2007, 11:07 View Responses (3) |
Back to the top of the page The Risk Management of Everything
I know that this is slightly off the topic, and may have been mentioned before, AND, I think that a perspective drawn from 'The Risk Management of Everything' underpins a lot of the conversations we are having here.
Posted by: Arthur Battram , Director, PleXity , 01 May 2007, 12:04 View Responses (0) |
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Child Protection is an essential part of being a playworker and generally working with children in comtemporary society.
Posted by: Jane Roberts, Senior Playworker, Slade Gardens Adventure Playground, 03 May 2007, 17:54 View Responses (9) |
Back to the top of the page Do we listen to what children and parents think about it?
It seems to me that we are living in a society where the fear of litigation prompts most of our work in the public sector. It is frequently the case that workers are told that certain types of behaviour could be considered to be "inappropriate" and therefore should be avoided.
Posted by: Sharon Walsh, Entrancing Solutions, 26 April 2007, 17:29 View Responses (1) |
Back to the top of the page Good practice or good profit?
Working in a number of child related settings I am some what dismaid to find some still putting profit before solid child protection practice. I was recently asked to work alone with five children in a remote sports hall as quote, "The budget won't run to two staff". Given that I am a male worker I turned the work down and the sessions were cancelled. The guilt trip the management of the session tried to lay on me was that I had let the children down. As I am sure a number of other workers have faced this situation I would apreciate the latest thinking on this issue.
Posted by: Mick Sage, 30 April 2007, 17:23 View Responses (13) |
Back to the top of the page Your experience
This Discussion Forum was prompted, in part, by what I was hearing from too many frontline practitioners across provision: nurseries; adventure playgrounds; schools; out of school provision generally.
Posted by: Benard Spiegal, Principal, PLAYLINK, 02 May 2007, 00:10 View Responses (8) |
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Playgrounds will be natural play scapes for children. Children need climbing, play water and play with natural elamants.
Posted by: Zöhre BULUT, Landscape Architecture-Research Assistant, Atatürk University, 30 April 2007, 10:10 View Responses (5) |
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I'm a student approaching the end of my 1st year and I'm doing an assignment on children's rights. I'm wanting to get more information about protecting children from some of the imagery that appears. but specifically I want to know how we can protect children from some of the media biased images that appear in newspapers, on the News and in magazines that could have a scarring effect on children in the future?
Posted by: Jonathan, Out of School Play Worker, KidsFirst, 19 April 2007, 15:32 View Responses (4) |
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