Accountability means to take responsibility for your actions, ensuring that you are qualified to undertake the task requested of you and that children's needs are always given priority. Every childcare worker is accountable for their actions when dealing with children, young people, parents/carers and other members of the team. Therefore, childcare workers should know why they are undertaking specific activities as part of their duties. Childcare workers should also be appropriately trained in order to ensure that they are qualified to undertake their duties.
Childcare workers are accountable to the children and young people they support. Childcare workers have a duty of care to ensure that all children or young people at the setting are safe. At times, the actions of childcare workers can harm a child if they are not undertaken in a careful and qualified manner, for example, when administering medicine to a child, or leading an activity with an element of risk. This means that childcare workers need to be able to justify or explain their actions if required to do so.
Childcare workers are accountable to their employer, so employers must include the duties they will be expected to undertake in their contract of employment. Then, they will be accountable to the employer for completing those duties safely and effectively. Failure to do so may lead to disciplinary action.
Accountability also means complying with policies, standards, codes of conduct and professional practice, for example:
Atebolrwydd yw cymryd cyfrifoldeb am eich gweithredoedd, gan sicrhau eich bod yn gymwys i gyflawni'r dasg y gofynnwyd i chi ei chyflawni a bod anghenion plant yn dod yn gyntaf bob amser. Mae pob gweithiwr gofal plant yn atebol am eu gweithredoedd wrth ddelio â phlant, pobl ifanc, rhieni/gofalwyr ac aelodau eraill o’r tîm. Felly, dylai gweithwyr gofal plant wybod pam eu bod yn cyflawni gweithgareddau penodol fel rhan o'u dyletswyddau. Dylai gweithwyr gofal plant hefyd gael eu hyfforddi’n briodol er mwyn sicrhau eu bod yn gymwys i gyflawni eu dyletswyddau.
Mae gweithwyr gofal plant yn atebol i’r plant a’r bobl ifanc y maent yn eu cefnogi. Mae gan gweithwyr gofal plant ddyletswydd gofal i sicrhau bod yr holl blant neu bobl ifanc yn y lleoliad yn ddiogel. Bydd adegau pan allai gweithredoedd gweithwyr gofal plant achosi niwed i blentyn os na chânt eu cyflawni mewn ffordd ofalus a chymwys, er enghraifft, wrth roi meddyginiaeth i blentyn, neu wrth arwain gweithgaredd sydd ag elfen o risg. Mae hyn yn golygu bod angen i gweithwyr gofal plant allu cyfiawnhau neu esbonio eu gweithredoedd os oes angen.
Mae gweithwyr gofal plant hefyd yn atebol i'w cyflogwr, felly mae'n rhaid i gyflogwyr nodi mewn cytundeb cyflogaeth y dyletswyddau y bydd disgwyl iddynt eu cyflawni. Yna, byddan nhw’n atebol i'r cyflogwr am gyflawni'r dyletswyddau hynny'n ddiogel ac yn effeithiol. Bydd methu â gwneud hynny’n gallu arwain at gamau disgyblu.
Mae atebolrwydd hefyd yn golygu cydymffurfio â pholisïau, safonau, codau ymddygiad ac arfer proffesiynol, er enghraifft:
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