Childminding is caring and watching children usually from 0-8 years of age. Childminders can be hired on part -time or full-time basics. Childminders are trained, insured and qualified in first aid. E2 Using childminding in a home environment can be more flexible than other forms of childcare which is a benefit for parents who have to work out of school hours and need someone to look after their child after or before school. Also for parents who have young children and cannot yet get them into a school or nursery due to their age, so need someone to care for their child while at work.
Families will have different requirements for childcare: * Parents may work or study and need their children cared for in a safe learning environment for all or part of the day. * Some children want to stay with their children while they socialise * Some parents want their children to be spend time in settings which offers services explicitly for young children’s learning. * Some parents want their children to be in small home based groups *
They may also conduct research, act as consultants or provide education to staff and family members. This nursing career requires a high level of diligence and teamwork. You will work closely with parents, neonatologists and other nurse specialists to achieve optimal results for your tiny patients. There are three levels in the neonatal nursing specialty: • Level I care for healthy infants. The demand for this level of neonatal nursing is decreasing because mothers and newborn babies are now more likely to stay in the same room together after birth.
There are many questions to ask when taking a child to a setting such as a creche as its only temporary care and things will be done rather differently then a day nursery for example, if a child has a bump to the head in a day nursery, an accident form and a bump to the head form is written out and the child is given first aid, and parents are contacted. There should be a named first aider in the building and of course a first aid box. A crèche reflects the purpose of the childcare setting by being able to care and educate children even if it is in a short space of time, and the creche settings will cater for many different ages groups from babies to older children that are placed into the setting for parents to be able to go back to work/shopping/gym or do what they need to do, There are many different ages of the children who will attend a crèche, and the space that they provide, promoting a relaxing environment for children to play. A creche should offer equipment that is suitable for all the ages, and activities should be suitable for the age ranges that are
It might be more crucial for the child to receive hospice care at home, so the child may avoid from suffering from separation anxiety. Upon searching for the best hospice program for their child, a parent will be concerned with the services that can be provided during this difficult time. Such services that hospice can provide for children are: * Emotional support * Respite care (temporarily relief for the parents from the hospice
mTHCaroline Mauney English101-713 Charles Baker 22October2011 Foster Children Programs The foster care system in the United States addresses a precise set of cases--children who need temporary housing while their families sort out a difficult set of problems. Such children are likely to return to their families, but cannot do so until issues of employment, housing, and drug dependency are solved, which sometimes takes time. Many criticisms of foster care are based on practices that happened decades earlier (Jacobs).Today foster care is one useful tool in the arsenal of weapons available to social workers to assure that children are protected. Although In the United States this year, about half a million children
If you know what is going on with the child’s development, practitioners have the opportunity to support the child, providing good surroundings for the child’s development to progress in. It will help to work out the type of play activities they’ll enjoy and how you can support their independence skills. Different aged children have different needs. Making checks to see children are developing and growing well is important as it indicates problems which can notify you as early as possible. Most checks are conducted by doctors, however in the early years, practitioners and parents notice this first.
1.2 Identify who relevant partners would be in own setting In own setting the relevant partners would be; other nurseries, parents and carers, information services, health visitors, children’s centres, speech and language therapists, social services, educational therapists and education and welfare officers, these all benefit the children differently but make sure that they’re getting a good start in life for example social services ensure that they are getting treated right at home and in nursery, social services will be called if there is suspected or confirmed abuse and the child will be take away from their parents and either put in a foster home or put up for adoption 1.3 Define the characteristics of effective partnership working There are many different characteristics of effective partnership working, one of these is making sure that confidentiality laws are followed correctly and information is only shared with the relevant people. Another characteristic is listening to each other and making sure messages are fully understood, effective communication is another characteristic this makes sure no important messages are missed such as absence’s and meeting dates. 1.4 Identify barriers to
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Work demands and family responsibility have increasingly come in conflict as mothers have become a large part of the workforce, and fathers have begun to share in the caregiving responsibilities. Working parents at B. Insurance Agency need to care for their children. What benefits can be obtained from the employer and employees by encouraging B Insurance Agency to provide a daycare center during working hours? Child care programs can benefit employers by decreasing absenteeism, providing higher productivity, and having a lower turnover rate.
E2 Discuss why it is important for the practitioner to observe children in their care. There are many reason why practitioners should observe child in their care, by doing the observation the practitioner can gain valuable information about the individual child. I have listed the reasons I think are doing observations are important. • By doing observations the practitioner can check to see if the child is developing and growing. One of the parents of the children in my setting where concerned that their child was particularly small for their age group and that he didn’t seem to be growing.