Health sciences and medicine

Health and social care €“ Caring for Children and young people

Project description
This assignment is distinction level of the Edexcel Btec level 3 Health and Social Care. The assignment forms part of unit 10 Caring for children and young people

D1 evaluate the regulation of care provision for looked after children and young people

For this criteria you will need to look at the legislation that protects children such as The Children Act,
Remember that evaluate means that you need to look at the advantages/disadvantages and draw a conclusion of the care provision for the child/young person.

You need to bear in mind that the needs of the child/young person are paramount when considering the issues, and consider the relative rights as afforded by the relevant legislation and any potential conflicts. Look back at the work by the United Conventions of the Rights of the Child.
It is important that you can demonstrate knowledge of the protocols, policies and procedures, the lines of accountability, for investigating allegations of child maltreatment.
You may want to re-look at the case of baby P, how did legislation protect this child?

Remember once you have highlighted advantages/disadvantages you must draw a conclusion.
For this criteria you will need to demonstrate that you have researched widely around the subject, use the websites in the Unit 10 spec, these have a wealth of information on them. Ensure you reference correctly

Below are details extracted from edexcel unit 10 which might help with the assignment as the assignment need to show that these points have been considered specifically the regulation of care provision;

Know how care is provided for looked after children and young people
Legislation/legal framework: relevant to home country; relevant sections from, eg United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) 1989, Every Child Matters (ECM) 2003, The Children
Act 1989, 2004, The Human Rights Act 1998, The Data Protection Act 1998, Framework for the
Assessment of Children in Need and their Parents 2000, Common Assessment Framework (England);
other relevant local policies
Care available: foster care; respite care; residential childcare; adoption; planning for care in partnership
with the child or young person, their parents, and other agencies, eg fostering agencies; the paramountcy
principle
Organisation of care provision: home country governments responsible for overall social care, health and
education for children and young people; local authority services, eg Local Authority Children’s Services
(England), Health and Social Service Trusts (Northern Ireland); third sector organisations, eg Barnados,
NSPCC, British Association for Adoption and Fostering; private providers, eg private nurseries
Type of services: universal (provided to all children and young people); specialist (to meet the needs of a
particular group, eg looked after children, children who are disabled); targeted (towards certain groups of
children or young people to prevent risk eg of harm, or offending)
Job roles: commissioning, directing and managing services, eg Directors of Children’s Services; directly
working with children and young people, eg volunteers, social workers, health visitors, nursing assistants,
youth workers, tutors, educational psychologists, play workers, foster parents

Regulation of care provision: regulation of those working with children and young people, eg CRB checks;
regulation of services provided for children and families, eg Ofsted; regulatory bodies, eg General
Teaching Council for England, General Social Care Council