Children and Young People Shc 31

There are many social, economical and cultural factors that impact on the lives of children and young people. In my role as a Young Carer’s Support Worker, I work with a number of families living with the consequences of these factors. Every Child Matters (ECM) aims to improve the outcomes and life chances of every child and young person, therefore, it is important we understand and do all we can to help them achieve the 5 outcomes of the ECM, stay safe, be healthy, enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution, and, achieve economic well-being.

Multi agency working is a child centred approach and deemed to work well providing the best support to children, young people and families. It provides more benefits because

Integrated working is achieved through effective collaboration and co-ordination across all services and sectors including voluntary who work with children, young people and their families. These sectors could be housing, police, health, child-minders, community groups or early year’s workers. The above services are a fundamental role for both children, families and carers who may need the support of these agencies .Multi- agency Collaboration is crucial in partnership working, to support better outcomes for children and their families. Integrated working brings many benefits to delivering a more improved service by:

1.1 Identify the current legislation and codes of practise relevant to the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity.

1.3 Analyse the impact of legislation and policy initiatives on the promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion in own area of responsibility

Prevent discrimination: support equality – This sector of the act explains where discrimination is most likely to occur in the workplace and how to stop it happening

1. Explain how legislation and codes of practice relating to equality, diversity and discrimination apply to own work role

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1.3 The legislation relating to equality, diversity and inclusion, stems both from UK government and European union. It offers protection from discrimination on grounds of age, disability, gender, race and ethnic origin, religious faith or belief and sexual orientation. The legislation has implications on all workplaces, in terms of employment practice and in terms of the services provided. Compliance with the legislation must be embedded in your Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policies.

This enables different services and professionals to join together to prevent problems happening. It is used to support children, young people and families to help secure improved outcomes.

This essay will attempt to critically examine the importance of interagency working in the safeguarding and protection of children and young people in the UK. It will consider both the challenges and how these have or might be overcome. It will look at key government legislation in respect to child welfare and pay particular note to high profile cased where interagency working has appeared to be less that effective in maintaining safeguards for vulnerable children, in particular. Consideration will be given to models of working that support interagency collaboration and of how some of these models may have been implemented in current

For this task, I am going to explain how two national initiatives promote anti-discriminatory practice.

“Multi-agency arrangements enable schools to share information with partners, including the police, social services and the voluntary sector, and to draw on external expertise from agencies specialising in mental health, nursing and community activities.” (Goodall and Vorhaus 2010:

There are several common barriers when working with other agencies for example one of the main barriers is that not everybody will agree on everything whether this is to do with the support and help the child should receive or with the problems the child may have in the first place. Each profession may work differently and have different opinions, this then in turn causes problems when deciding what action should be

Role: Legislation is in place to ensure discrimination does not take place within the sector, and that everyone, regardless of background, ethnicity, age, sex, etc. have an equal opportunity to receive employment and promotions. Specific federal and state pieces of legislation cover different areas around anti-discrimination, however the main acts are;