Safeguarding everybody…the rewards and challenges of supporting looked after children and young people and protecting support teams
Providing support to children who are being looked after can be a very rewarding experience and to know that you have played a part in their development is very satisfying, but at the same time of course, there are many challenges. Whilst it is essential that children and young people are protected, support teams also need to know how to protect themselves so that they can provide the best support which they can. There are many different things which support teams can find challenging. We ask our customers their thoughts and the kind of things which they tell us are... I have been asked to act as an appropriate person with a young person at the police station and I don’t know what the role includes or what I could be asked to do. I will be taking a young person on a contact visit to their parents and I am not sure of the procedures which I have to follow, or how a contact visit should be planned. I work with young people who I am told have attachment ‘issues’ but I don’t know very much...