Understand the Needs of Children and Young People Who Are Vulnerable and Experiencing Poverty and Disadvantage.

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Sarah Cornish CYPS Level 5 Unit CYPOP 17 Understand the needs of children and young people who are vulnerable and experiencing poverty and disadvantage. Task 1 links to learning outcome 1, assessment criteria 1.1,1.2,1.3 and 1.4. 1 – Understand the factors that may impact on the outcomes and life chances of children and young people. Many factors impact outcomes and life chances, ethnicity, disability, gender, sexual orientation, family socio- economic status, parental education, home learning environment, weight at birth, quality of pre-school education & family structure. Ethnicity Studies have shown that educational attainment is lower for most ethnic groups compared to those of White British Children. Despite the positive impact of early years education, it is known that fewer children from ethnic minority groups participate in formal pre-school childcare, compared with white children (Fitzgerald, et al., 2002). Strand (1999) has show that pupils with early education had higher attainment than those with no early education. In Early year’s non- white children are under-represented. Mothers from ethnic minority groups are more likely to stay at home with their children. Interestingly ethnic minority groups do have better outcomes at primary school – showing that they benefit from a positive home learning environment which may alleviate the possible disadvantage of not attending a pre-school/early years setting. The advantage of early years education has been shown to be visible at age 4 – 7 (key stage 1) and pupils who receive early education have higher attainment than those with no early education. Strand’s (1999) study of inner London pupils showed that black pupils with high attainment at age 4 and white pupils from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, all made less than expected progress during Key Stage 1. Indeed at this stage it is
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