and responsibilities of all including: the children commissioner, local authorities, elected director, children services, the police, health services providers, youth justice system, and the families (Child protection in england, 2018) This put child welfare as a duty and responsibility to all.
After every major child protection issue which leads to death of children, it leads to changes. The case review of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, killed by Ian Huntley caretaker in the village. This tragic could have been avoided if he was checked up during recruitment process. Sir Michael Birchard report resulted to today’s DBS police report process during recruitment. (Child protection, 2005)
This has had a massive impact on health and social care setting in the fact that it sometime prolongs the recruitment process and can be costly. During this period the service provider might still be under staffed waiting. However, this process has minimised the risks of employing criminals and barred individuals to work with vulnerable people. The downside of this process is that it does not guarantee that the person is 100% clean as they can get cleared today and kill tomorrow. This could be effective if every staff is rechecked as often as possible.
After the death of baby Peter in 2008 the Children’ Act was amended in 2010. The breakdown in communication again was an issue. So, an emphasis was on communication between different agencies: Health care professionals, teachers and other school staff, nursery staff etc, have the responsibility to pass on to the local authority or the police any suspicion or concern about child abuse, and clear guidance and support for new social worker, they had provision of funding to recruit more social worker and training review of skills. (Long, 2014)
Be Healthy, stay Safe, Enjoy and Achieve, make a positive contribution, achieve economic wellbeing.
These five outcomes are universal ambitions for every child and young person, whatever their background or circumstances. (Every Child Matters to Museums, 2018)
The two pieces of legislation that have a greatest influence is the Children’s Act, which focuses on Special Educational Needs and Disability and The NHS and Community Health Care Act, which focuses on the care and support.
NHS and Community Health Care Act (2010)
NHS is a national service that provide health care to the population and was created so that every individual present in the UK could access the health care (Gov.uk, 2012). With the passage of time the needs of population change NHS goes through reforms and modernisation so that it can cope with the needs. So, NHS has to change and bring improvements to the legislation in order to provide a good healthcare delivery (Patients4NHS , 2018).
“One of the reasons for introducing the 2012 HSC Act was the financial issues facing the NHS and also the vast pressure on its services, this transferred the availability of public health services (such as