I will get to know each child, establish relationships with parents, and support their strengths as well as their needs. I will express my own emotions and respond to the children’s emotions, valuing their feelings and helping them express what they are feeling. But above all, I will make sure that every child feels secure in my room and are comfortable coming to me as their teacher. I provide a positive relationship with the child through daily routines and interactions. I feel this gives the children and parents a sense of trust.
“Examples of specific services offered through projects include: Home based ante natal care, Breastfeeding Support Groups Advice, support and information on health related topics Early Language Development Programmes Play development for all ages and stages Age appropriate physical development opportunities High quality crèche sessions Promotion of the creative arts Support for smooth transitions between pre school and school.” (EarlyYearsSureStart) Nursery schools - Provide early learning and childcare for children between three and five years old. They are often based at Sure Start Children’s Centres or linked to a primary school. Preschools and playgroups - Usually run by voluntary groups providing part-time play and early learning for
health and safety, fire drills and missing children. Keeping up to date with training in safeguarding issues encouraging learning and development of children and young people assessing observations to identify additional support needs a child or young person will need [CAF] which is a common assessment framework, this system enables multi agencies to access and add information about children. 1.4 All agencies dealing with children and young people up to the age of eighteen must seek to promote their welfare. The child / young person is the centre of everything
Unit 302- Engage in personal development in health social care and young people’s settings Understand what is required for competence in own work role 302.1.1 Describe the duties and responsibilities of own work role My duties and responsibilities as a foster carer are to provide care to looked after children (LAC) and young people of various ages. To help and protect children who may have come from difficult backgrounds and experienced abuse, neglect and a chaotic or disruptive family life. We help the child to prepare for returning home to the birth family or for an adoptive/permanent family situation. We promote and be positive about contact with the child’s parents or any wider family members. We have to work with social workers and other outside agencies and share good practice to make the placement a positive situation for the child in our care.
When we work with infants at nursery to help them with basics vocabulary and numeracy we need to choose media that will help them understand. Small children will remember songs, words and rhymes. Infants learn by looking, hearing and touching. They pay attention to voices, music and rattles. Patience is the most important skill.
For children under the age of six, tell them a couple of days before the visit. If they are six or above, tell them a week or two beforehand. It is important that you are honest and truthful with them, as well as willing to answer their questions. If you don’t know the answer to a question, tell them that you will find out the answer and then do so! What to Bring * Many children are comforted by a familiar toy or blanket, and these can be brought with them to the hospital (unless otherwise instructed).
One is early diagnosis; a child who is diagnosed at a young age can be placed in appropriate educational classes and get social services needed to help the child or family. Also, make sure the home environment is a loving, nurturing, and stable. A child who suffers from FAS can be more sensitive to disruptions to routines. Ones who are able to live in a stable home environment are not as likely to develop secondary conditions. In addition to those types of treatments they can also use medical care, medication, behavior and education therapy, and parent training.
All babies need love and attention from the moment they are born. It isn’t just about meeting their physical needs like feeding, bathing and changing. Attention and love from adults is important for children’s development and for their mental health it provides them with the ability to form positive relationships and learn and develop in the best way for each individual child. Giving children a key person within their early years setting allows them to feel comforted and secure whilst they are away from their parents or carers, they are able to feel relaxed in the care of their key worker giving them love comfort and protection and therefore enabling them to play and learn in the setting. Having the supportive, loving relationship with their
There muscle development starts from head to toe, a child will first develop the control over there neck muscles. Intellectual: babies are born ready to communication and interact with other individuals especially there mother and father. From a very young age a baby will start to communication in a language, for example they will express their feelings and needs through gestures. emotional: babies are usually born with some of their emotions, during the first year of their life it is good to give a baby love, warmth and care to help them to gain the sense of being safe and also welcoming. The sense of being safe is a good base for the development of other healthy emotional responses.
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