E1 One of the practitioner’s roles in meeting children’s learning needs could be to understand and work with other practitioners and staff. This can help to provide different learning opportunities to individual children because each child is unique as practitioners should take into consideration all diverse learning needs, for example there are many activities that could be changed to suit individual children. The practitioners’ role would therefore be to plan and resource an environment that is challenging and helps children learn in many different areas of their learning. The role of the practitioner in supporting the learning needs of children is they have to complete regular assessments on their development and learning to identify their progress and plan their next steps to help the children achieve further. The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), (2012) states that the role of the practitioner is crucial in observing and reflecting on children’s spontaneous play, building on this by planning and providing a challenging environment which supports specific areas of children’s learning and extends and develops children’s language and communication in their play.
CYP 3.6: Working Together for the Benefit of Children & Young People Understanding integrated & multi-agency workings 1.1: Explain the importance of multi-agency working & integrated working Importance of Multi agency working & integrated working The key principles of Multi agency & integrated working are: • Openness • Trust • Honesty • Agreed shared goals & values • Regular communication Once these principles are fulfilled this ill enable the professionals and agencies involved to work their best and focus on the child. Before Multi agency and integrated working came into practice a family with special or additional needs would have to appointments with various professionals and had to shuttle between them with the reports from the respectively. Now with this way of working a lot of precious time is saved and appropriate and quick intervention follows timely support. Multi agency working is a holistic approach to child care and education and is an important feature of the EVERY CHILD MATTERS frame work. The outcomes of Every child matters are: Benefits of Multi agency working & integrated working An important aspect of multi agency working and integrated working is that children and young people who are at risk can be identified and the organizations involved can quickly ensure that the child is safe and protected.
3. Understand the importance of partnerships with carers 1. Understand partnership working within the context of services for children and young people 1.1 Explain why working in partnership with others is important for children and young people | 1.2 Identify who relevant partners would be in own work setting | 1.3 Define the characteristics of effective partnership working | 1.4 Identify barriers to partnership working | 2. Understand the importance of effective communication and information sharing in services for children and young people 2.1 Describe why clear and effective communication between partners is required | 2.2 Identify policies and procedures in the work setting for information sharing | 2.3 Explain where there may be conflicts or dilemmas in relation to sharing information with partners and maintaining confidentiality | 2.4 Describe why it is important to record information clearly, accurately, legibly and concisely meeting legal requirements | 2.5 Identify how communications and records are recorded and securely stored meeting data protection requirements | 2.6 Explain why and how referrals are made to different agencies. | 3.
support each child in their learning and work with parents and carers as partners in children’s learning and development. understand your responsibilities in meeting the learning and development and safeguarding and welfare requirements of the EYFS. oversee the educational programmes to ensure that all areas of learning are includedand that assessment is consistent and used well to inform planning. promote equality and diversity and have a clear overview of the progress of all the children who attend. evaluate your provision, use this information to identify priorities for development and set challenging targets for improvement, with a focus on children’s achievements.
Unit 029 – Working together for the Benefit of Children and Young People Outcome 1 – Understand integrated and multi-agency working 1. Explain the importance of multi-agency working and integrated working. Multi-agency and integrated working are vital parts to achieving better outcomes for the young people. If these types of working are not implemented and acted upon then you are not ensuring that the young people have the support that they require to achieve as much as they can. 2.
Working in a children and young people’s setting is not only about building and maintaining relationships with children and young people but with families, parents, carers and other professionals. Sharing and gaining information is very important throughout people’s lives, it helps us to learn, adapt, work with not only children and young people, but parents, carers, colleagues and other professionals. This is an essential reason for communication for everyone. Sharing ideas ad feelings is equally as important, everyone’s thoughts are different and how one person sees an object may not be how others see it, it is important to express ideas in order to allow everyone to express their creativeness. All humans have emotions, if we do not express our feelings and needs we can become very frustrated, feel isolated or not feel fulfilled.
When planning a healthy and safe environment in a childcare setting, a number of factors should be considered. There are a number of important principles to think about when planning for healthy and safe environments or activities for children. Most of these are common sense; however, one needs to remember that everyone is an individual and may have different needs. One of the most important aspects to take into account is the space I have and the space I allow the children in my care to use. The space in the care setting is divided into different sections that each have different functions.
Task 13.1 As a practitioner it’s your duty to observe and maintain correct procedures to ensure that the children are offered a stimulating environment which will further allow optimum possibilities for development. All those who work with or amongst children and young people have a crucial role to play in helping not only to shape aspects of their lives, but to also aid in enhancing their future development. Therefore it can be stated that how we set up our own working practices can affect children and young people’s development. The necessity of encouragement and expression to children of the importance of good physical and mental health through their diet, exercise and healthy. If we do not promote and encourage a healthy and balanced lifestyle, it could results in the children having poorly developed immune system which in turn would cause them to be ill and have days off school which would affect their development.
Authentic observations and assessments are a valuable and irreplaceable tool in many areas of child development. The assist in the early detection of children who may be in need of specialized services, and they are also great tools in helping the teacher plan instruction for individuals as well as for group instruction. Assessments are also a great and reliable tool that is utilized in helping professionals identify where their program and staff are lacking and where improvements and adjustments are needed to better meet the goals that are set for children's developmental needs. As a child educator it is important to know how to have meaningful conversations with children. Early childhood educators need to learn to watch and listen to a child long enough to determine a what a child's goals should be and as an educator understand the child's individual needs to develop strategies for attaining those goals.
Focus on – Working with Others Working with other agencies when working with children and young people is essential to providing an effective service. Multi-agency working ensures the most appropriate, experienced and skilled team are working together to ensure an integrated approach to issues relating to the child or young person. This may be within a nursery, educational, youth or special needs environment, with the focus being on the welfare and development of the child or young person and can relate to any area from simple transport facilities to and from school, up to specialist psychological or physical therapies. It is therefore vital that those working with children and young people know the referral processes and what agencies are