Explain The Importance Of Working In Partnership With Parents

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• Criteria 1.3- explain why it is important to work in partnership with parents, including fathers. Working in partnership with parents is important for children’s wellbeing.Partnership involves parents, families and practitioner working together to benefit children. Parents are the most important people in their children’s life, by working together parents and practitioners can enhance children’s learning and development. For example, parents provide information about their child and practitioner use that information to support children’s development and meet their individual needs in the setting. In partnership working parents feel valued and respected and feel comfortable to get involve in their children’s learning and development. On the other hand practitioners understand better the children and families in their settings and can help children develop a sense of identity and belonging in the setting. They can provide a more emotionally secure environment for children. Children are the one who benefited most if their parents have a positive professional relationship with the setting as they feel more…show more content…
Positive father involvement contributes to, and provides for, a whole range of better outcomes for children and young people. Article 18 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child states: that government shall use their best efforts to ensure recognition of the principle that both parents have common responsibilities for the upbringing and development of the child. The ultimate purpose of involving parents in general and fathers in particular, is to improve the quality of life of children and their families. So therefore it is important that practitioners work in partnership with parents, including father to provide an environment in which children will feel happy, belonged and can develop to their full
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