Personal learning log

Personal learning log



Personal learning log

Introduction 8th October 2009

The aim of the module was to safeguard and encourage children's welfare as supplying reliable protected and productive care endows children to have optimum alterations and go in adulthood successfully. HM Government (2006). On are first day we discovered the module anticipations and the distinct ways in which professionals arrive into communicate with children. We introduced are self to the assembly saying a little bit about us for example are titles, what course we were on and why we select to do the module of Fundamental Issues in Safeguarding children. There were 3 major causes why I select to do this foremost I have children of my own, secondly I work as a family support employee with families with children under the age of 5 who are mentioned to us for numerous distinct reason's. Thirdly I liked to evolve my comprehending and abilities to critically believe of how to identify indications and symptoms of abuse as this is a part of my employed role.

What was emphasised in this first meeting was the aims, objectivies and discovering conclusions and the significance of being adept to reply in a perceptive way to positions where you suppose that a child is being misused in alignment to work simultaneously in safeguarding and encouraging children's welfare. We then had to hear to a audio drama which rather a couple of of us discovered very distracting where a child was being misused by her dad her childminder observed that she had bruising on both arms and had observed a change in her behaviour the childminder did the right thing as she described it and therefore should be taken up as a issue of concern. We then composed down all who were engaged in the case and considered our thoughts and sentiments about this as a assembly and discovered that we all came to alike agreements. Lord Butler Slow (1988) states the three major localities to aim on all through the module foremost children arrive first the child is a individual and not an object of anxiety, secondly the child may not be certain of what's going on they may appear bewildered, tearful finally seem believe and do understanding how to investigate a situation.

Safeguarding and promoting children's welfare 15th October 2009

In todays message the major matters that were emphasised were what Safeguarding was although the government (2008) characterises 'safeguarding and encouraging children's welfare as supplying reliable protected and productive care that endows children to have optimum alterations and go in adulthood successfully. This was the major aim on the module was the child. However following on from that we examined the outlooks of children that might live in western humanity, Bart (2009) states Social building of childhood is a outcome of humanity, labelling and recognising a stage of life. Some outlooks of the child are being reliant, a ownership and numerous more which can be utilised even today. Brat furthermore said that in the 19th 100 years a ...