Describe The Importance Of Children's Personal Safety

In order to ensure a safe and healthy environment and services for children/young people there are some factors which need to be taken into account. These include any equipment which they will be in contact with, such as electrical equipment, anything which may pose a fire risk, any damaged furniture or fixtures which they may come into contact with. If there are any cables or anything they may trip over as well as any spillages or anything they may slip on and fall. All if these issues need to be taken into account

Risk assessments should be carried out regularly to make sure that there are no safe guard threats towards the children in the setting. Childcare settings need risk assessing for example is there entrances and exits to the building that an unauthorised person could use? Could a child leave the setting without anyone noticing? Could a child get seriously hurt due to a broken piece of equipment?

     The reason why I think all of this is because there is no real signs of an intruder.

Always remain with the children in you care if someone else is around ie builders meter reading ect

Security: Any outside area used by children should be secured and boundaries regularly inspected, to ensure the safety of all pupils.

Assume all intruders pose an imminent threat. Follow the intruder until the situation is rectified.

It is important to ensure children and young people are protected from harm within the setting, as the parents are leaving their children in your care with the expectation that they can trust you and your colleagues to keep their children from harm. It is difficult for parents to leave their children in an education or care setting and then go to work; they need to be confident that their children will be in safe supportive hands with people that will help them develop.

Childminders must ensure the premises and equipment used for the purposes of childcare are safe and suitable and must undertake a risk assessment of the premises and equipment at least once in each calendar year. Childminders must ensure that all necessary measures are taken to minimise any identified risks.

Smith will either rotate shifts at his home or hire trusted security or body guards to protect Mr. Smith’s home. The guards will do surveillance and continually check the grounds and surrounding areas for threats. If Mr. Smith wishes he may hire additional body guards for his home protection.

Washing hands before touching food is very important as you get rid of any bacteria or dirt which could be harmful towards the child. Every staff member should be CRB checked. This makes sure they have no criminal history. And that they are safe to work with children. An admissions policy is also important almost settings operate on a ‘first come first served basis’ which means who ever applies first get a place first.

It emphasises the important principles to be followed when working with children and young people: settings must provide a safe and secure environment, if any children are identified as suffering from abuse or likely to suffer the appropriate action must be taken.

At burglary scenes this is often the area where the suspect gained entry into the premises, this is called (The Point of Entry). The first thing which should be determined is: How and where was entry gained? The most common methods are breaking a window or kicking in a door. If some other method of entry is used, make note of it. Be sure to check all the doors and windows for signs of forced entry often a burglar may try several doors or windows before finding one they can open. Where did the suspect(s) go inside the scene? Are there any items missing or disturbed? Look along the areas from the Point of Entry to the locations of the items.

On a rainy evening you return to your ground-floor apartment and discover that you have been burglarized. You can’t believe it, because you are certain you locked the door when you went out. You share the apartment with a roommate.

A shrill screech of sheer terror invades my ears and I have to blink my eyes several times to process where the noise was coming from. I look outside my window and can see two figures in the woods beside my house, one is lying on the floor and the other is leaning over the one o`n the floor holding a knife and stabs it maliciously into the other one. I scramble for my phone and dial the police while frantically locking all the windows and doors in the house.

Ask any witnesses to stay and provide a statement for the police. If they cannot stay, get their contact information so the police can get a statement from them later.