List of legislation, national policies, guidance, standards and frameworks.
The Children's Act 1989 provides a comprehensive framework for the care and protection of children. The Children's Act 2004 supplemented the 1989 Act and reinforced the message that all organisations working with children have a duty in helping safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
The Wales Safeguarding Procedures (2019) guide and inform child protection practice in each of the Local and Regional Safeguarding Children Boards across Wales. They outline the framework for determining how individual child protection referrals, actions and plans are made and carried out.
Overarching legislation that underpins the associated regulations related to childcare and play in Wales.
These regulations outline what a care provider must do by law to provide a care service in Wales.
These standards are used to determine whether child minding and day care settings are providing adequate care for children up to the age of 12.
Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2010
Part 2 - Child Minding and Day Care for Children
Curriculum and outcomes for 3 to 7 year old children in Wales. There are seven areas of learning (six for Welsh-medium settings/schools) supporting children's development and skills.
The Childcare Act 2006 places a duty on local authorities in Wales to secure, as far as is reasonably practicable, sufficient childcare for working parents in their area and those undertaking training or education to prepare for work.
Requirements of the Childcare Sufficiency Assessment produced by local authorities.
A list of all the rights of children and young people that ensure that they are safe, have what they need to survive and develop, and have their say on decisions affecting their lives.
Welsh Government aims based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Welsh Government Strategy and plans including the long-term approach to achieving a million Welsh speakers by 2050.
Guidance on providing an ‘Active Offer’
The Welsh Government's aim to develop a highly skilled childcare, play and early year’s workforce recognised as a highly respected profession and career of choice. A career appreciated by society for its contribution to our children's learning and development.
[please note currently being reviewed, revised version due to be published before September 2019]
Guidance produced by Public Health Wales for specific diseases, settings and scenarios.
Resource to help settings support children to eat well, provide excellent quality food to meet the childcare regulations for food and drink, and also be able to share with parents that they are offering the best start for their children.
Rhestr o ddeddfwriaeth, polisïau cenedlaethol, canllawiau, safonau a fframweithiau.
Mae Deddf Plant 1989 yn darparu fframwaith cynhwysfawr ar gyfer amddiffyn plant a gofalu amdanyn nhw. Ategwyd Deddf 1989 gan Ddeddf Plant 2004, a atgyfnerthodd y neges bod dyletswydd ar bob sefydliad sy'n gweithio gyda phlant i helpu i ddiogelu a hyrwyddo lles plant.
Mae Gweithdrefnau Diogelu Cymru (2019) yn arwain ac yn llywio ymarfer amddiffyn plant ym mhob un o'r Byrddau Diogelu Plant Lleol a Rhanbarthol ledled Cymru. Maent yn amlinellu'r fframwaith sy'n pennu'r ffordd y caiff atgyfeiriadau, camau gweithredu a chynlluniau amddiffyn plant unigol eu gwneud a'u cyflawni.
Deddfwriaeth gyffredinol sy'n ategu'r rheoliadau cysylltiedig sy'n ymwneud â gofal plant a chwarae yng Nghymru.
Mae'r rheoliadau hyn yn amlinellu'r hyn y mae'n rhaid i ddarparwr gofal ei wneud yn ôl y gyfraith er mwyn darparu gwasanaeth gofal yng Nghymru.
Defnyddir y safonau hyn i bennu a yw lleoliadau gwarchod plant a gofal dydd yn darparu gofal digonol i blant hyd at 12 oed.
Mesur Plant a Theuluoedd (Cymru) 2010
Rhan 2 - Gwarchod Plant a Gofal Dydd i Blant
Y cwricwlwm a deilliannau i blant rhwng 3 a 7 oed yng Nghymru. Ceir saith maes dysgu (chwech i leoliadau/ysgolion cyfrwng Cymraeg) sy'n ategu datblygiad a sgiliau plant.
Mae Deddf Gofal Plant 2006 yn rhoi dyletswydd ar awdurdodau lleol yng Nghymru i sicrhau, i'r graddau sy'n rhesymol ymarferol, fod gofal plant digonol ar gael i rieni sy'n gweithio yn eu hardaloedd, a'r rheini sy'n ymgymryd â hyfforddiant neu addysg er mwyn paratoi ar gyfer gwaith.
Gofynion yr Asesiad o Ddigonolrwydd Gofal Plant a gaiff ei lunio gan awdurdodau lleol.
Rhestr o holl hawliau plant a phobl ifanc sy'n sicrhau eu bod yn ddiogel, bod ganddynt yr hyn sydd ei angen arnynt i oroesi a datblygu, a'u bod yn cael mynegi eu barn ar benderfyniadau sy'n effeithio ar eu bywydau.
Nodau Llywodraeth Cymru yn seiliedig ar Gonfensiwn y Cenhedloedd Unedig ar Hawliau'r Plentyn.
Cynlluniau a Strategaeth Llywodraeth Cymru, gan gynnwys y dull gweithredu hirdymor o sicrhau bod miliwn o siaradwyr Cymraeg erbyn 2050.
Canllawiau ar ddarparu ‘Cynnig Rhagweithiol’
Nod Llywodraeth Cymru o ddatblygu gweithlu gofal plant, chwarae a blynyddoedd cynnar hynod fedrus, a gaiff ei gydnabod fel proffesiwn uchel ei barch, ac yn yrfa y byddai pobl yn ei dewis. Gyrfa a gaiff ei gwerthfawrogi gan y gymdeithas am ei chyfraniad at ddysgu a datblygu ein plant.
[noder bod y canllawiau hyn yn cael eu hadolygu ar hyn o bryd, disgwylir i'r fersiwn ddiwygiedig gael ei chyhoeddi cyn mis Medi 2019]
Canllawiau a luniwyd gan Iechyd Cyhoeddus Cymru ar gyfer clefydau, lleoliadau a senarios penodol.
Adnodd i helpu lleoliadau i gefnogi plant i fwyta'n dda, i ddarparu bwyd o safon ragorol sy'n bodloni'r rheoliadau gofal plant o ran bwyd a diod, ac i allu cyfleu i rieni eu bod yn cynnig y dechrau gorau posibl i'w plant.
In a rights-based approach there are seven core aims:
These are underpinned by the following legislation, policy and guides:
Ceir saith nod craidd mewn dull sy'n seiliedig ar hawliau:
Caiff y rhain eu hategu gan y ddeddfwriaeth, y polisïau a'r canllawiau canlynol: