Safeguarding Children

What Safeguarding Children covers

Safeguarding Children is examined in Unit AS 4, Safeguarding Children — compulsory for the Double Award. It covers physical development from one to eight years, intellectual and language development from one to eight years, emotional and social development from one to eight years, promoting development through activities and interaction, Piaget and Vygotsky in early years practice, Skinner and Bandura: managing behaviour and modelling, Erikson and Bowlby: attachment, identity and settling in, types of abuse, indicators of abuse in children, safeguarding responsibilities and the setting's policies and factors that increase the risk of child abuse.

The 11 subtopics

Each one has its own page. CCEA AS Health and Social Care students sit this topic in the first year.

• Physical development from one to eight yearsGross motor development, fine motor development and physical norms for a child of one year.Open →
• Intellectual and language development from one to eight yearsObject permanence, language of a child of eighteen months and telegraphic speech.Open →
• Emotional and social development from one to eight yearsSeparation anxiety, stranger anxiety and solitary play.Open →
• Promoting development through activities and interactionTwo broad strategies staff use to promote a child's development, key person in an early years setting and open question.Open →
• Piaget and Vygotsky in early years practiceSchema in Piaget's theory, piaget's four stages of cognitive development in order and egocentrism in Piaget's theory.Open →
• Skinner and Bandura: managing behaviour and modellingOperant conditioning, positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement.Open →
• Erikson and Bowlby: attachment, identity and settling inPsychosocial development, erikson's second stage and erikson's third stage.Open →
• Types of abuseChild abuse, physical abuse and fabricated or induced illness.Open →
• Indicators of abuse in childrenIndicator of abuse and failure to thrive.Open →
• Safeguarding responsibilities and the setting's policiesMain piece of children's legislation in Northern Ireland, child protection policy and main safer recruitment checks used in Northern Ireland.Open →
• Factors that increase the risk of child abuseImpaired parenting skills, dysfunctional family relationships and three protective factors that reduce the risk of abuse.Open →

What you need to know

Answer each one before you reveal it.

Take Safeguarding Children further

The same content, four other ways.

Commonly confused

Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.

• Safeguarding vs Child protection

  Safeguarding: the whole body of work that promotes welfare and prevents harm. Child protection: the narrower response once harm is suspected.

• Positive reinforcement vs Negative reinforcement

  Positive reinforcement: adding something the child wants after the behaviour. Negative reinforcement: taking away something the child dislikes.

• Negative reinforcement vs Punishment

  Negative reinforcement: making a behaviour more likely by removing what is unpleasant. Punishment: making it less likely by applying what is unpleasant.

Questions from this topic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

1. 1

   What is gross motor development?

   Model answer

   Gross motor development is the growth of control over the large muscles used for whole-body movements such as walking, running, climbing and jumping.

2. 2

   What is fine motor development?

   Model answer

   Fine motor development is the growth of control over the small muscles of the hands and fingers, used for tasks such as holding a pencil or fastening a button.

3. 3

   Describe the physical norms for a child of one year.

   Model answer

   A child of one year usually pulls to stand and cruises along the furniture, may take a few steps alone, and can pick up a small object between thumb and forefinger.

4. 4

   What is the pincer grasp, and when does it usually appear?

   Model answer

   The pincer grasp is picking up a small object between the thumb and the index finger, and it usually appears between nine and twelve months.

5. 5

   Describe the physical norms for a child of two years.

   Model answer

   A child of two years usually runs, kicks a ball, walks up and down stairs two feet to a step, builds a tower of about six bricks and feeds themselves with a spoon.

6. 6

   Describe the physical norms for a child of three years.

   Model answer

   A child of three years usually pedals a tricycle, walks upstairs with alternating feet, jumps from a low step, threads large beads and copies a circle.

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Safeguarding Children revision questions

Is Safeguarding Children examined at AS in CCEA Health and Social Care?

Yes. It sits in AS 4, which you take in the first year, so it is on the AS paper as well as counting towards the full A level.

What does Safeguarding Children cover in CCEA AS-Level Health and Social Care?

11 subtopics: physical development from one to eight years, intellectual and language development from one to eight years, emotional and social development from one to eight years, promoting development through activities and interaction, piaget and vygotsky in early years practice, skinner and bandura: managing behaviour and modelling, erikson and bowlby: attachment, identity and settling in, types of abuse, indicators of abuse in children, safeguarding responsibilities and the setting's policies and factors that increase the risk of child abuse. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.

How is Safeguarding Children organised?

By the CCEA 0003 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.