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Level B
Safeguarding: privacy, dignity and
personal care
A teacher sits behind a boy
                  helping him with his food selection
About this module
Two carers use specialised equipment
                  to lift a child into a wheelchair

Level B of this module introduces the principles of privacy, dignity and safeguarding in these areas of personal care:

  • Eating and drinking;
  • Dressing and undressing;
  • Toileting, toilet training and menstruation;
  • Personal hygiene;
  • Dealing with bodily fluids;
  • Medication, medical procedures and physical health tasks; and
  • Assessing when it is appropriate to use positive handling strategies to manage challenging behaviour.
Learning outcomes
Two carers ensure that a child is
                  comfortable in a wheelchair

The materials in this level are intended to provide those working with children with SLD/PMLD/CLDD the tools to be able to:

  • Understand the key aspects of physical/personal care and medical support likely to be encountered: toileting and toilet training; dressing and changing; feeding; puberty issues; medication/epilepsy/oxygen etc;
  • Understand how pupils, families and other professionals can support the development of personal care and health management plans in school; and
  • Begin to consider policies that ensure both pupils and staff are safeguarded during personal care.
Teachers' standards

Details of the professional standards that apply to all teachers in England can be obtained from the Department for Education website. These standards apply to all teachers regardless of their career stage and all aspects of the standards are relevant to teachers working with children with special educational needs.

 

Department for Education Teachers' Standards 2011

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Special Educational Needs

As defined by the Department for Education Special Educational Needs Code of Practice (2001), children have special educational needs if they have a learning difficulty which calls for special educational provision to be made for them.


Children have a learning difficulty if they have:

  • A significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children of the same age, or
  • A disability which prevents or hinders them from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided for children of the same age in schools within the area of the local education authority.
SENCodeOfPracticeCover
Acknowledgements

With thanks to the professionals who contributed to this module:

 

Module Content

Mary Saunders, OBE, Former Headteacher, Bettridge School, Cheltenham
Jo Egerton, Research Project Co-ordinator (CLDD), The Schools Network

 

All modules produced by The Schools Network and
Real Group (UK) Ltd for the Training Development Agency for Schools (TDA).

 

Editorial Team

Dr Mark Turner, Real Group (UK) Ltd
Professor Hilary Constable, The Schools Network
Jo Egerton, The Schools Network
Anne Fowlie, The Schools Network
John Truman, The Schools Network
Annie Grant, Independent Consultant

Production and Design

Jonathan Bond, Real Group (UK) Ltd
Colm Gibson, Real Group (UK) Ltd
David Hutter, Real Group (UK) Ltd
Ruth Earl, Real Group (UK) Ltd

 

Video, Audio and Photography

Atomic Productions

 

Project Management

Professor Barry Carpenter, The Schools Network
Alan Macgregor, Real Group (UK) Ltd
Sylvia Paddock, The Schools Network
Dr Mark Turner, Real Group (UK) Ltd
Caroline Ward, The Schools Network

 

Thanks to all the children, parents, carers, assistants and teachers for their involvement.