Assignment 013- Understand Partnership Working in Services for Children and Young People Task A Why is it important for children and young people that you work in partnership with the following people/groups? Parents, carers and guardians This partnership is very important because parents or carers need to trust the nursery and staff that work there. They will expect the best quality of care for their child. Partnering well with the parent or carer of the child will increase good communication including sharing important information regarding the child needs, wants and development. Building trust with parents or carers will result in them knowing that the nursery is a very good place for their child as it offers a great amount of help and support, which is especially important for new parents or carers.
Barriers come in many forms, such as when key persons are doing observations and planning. The parents may lack in confidence to give any suggestions or feel that their contribution isn’t worth making at all; they may also not want to get involved in this. However practitioner should let the parents of the child take charge on the suggestion making, instead of the practitioners taking charge. This allows the parents to feel valued and respect being given such an important role, building the parents confidence as their suggestions have be taken into
Unit Number: SHC 31 (051) 1. Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting. 1.1: Identify the different reasons people communicate: Staff - Children: Communicating is a good way to try and help prevent a child from feeling alone and isolated. Understanding the needs of the child, so they can tell you what they need and what they want. The child may have hurt themselves and by communicating with the nursery staff they can get the help that they need.
The roles of different agencies involved in safeguarding then welfare of children and young people are:- Children’s Charities: NSPCC, Barnados, Childe Line which are there to support children and allow the child to talk with confidence knowing help and support is at hand. They also can help and support family, parents and any one working/caring for children and young people. Social Care: This involves social workers who are assigned to children, young people and families cases as and when needed to identify any kind of abuse. They can be contacted by the Hospital (A&E), School, Police and even parents themselves. NHS: The NHS can be involved through going into schools on the vaccination programmes, hearing and eye test’s also height and weight checks as part of the feel great programme.
There are two types of partnership working: multi agency working and integrated working. Multi agency working brings together practitioners from different sectors to provide an integrated way of working to support children, young people and families and ensure that children who need additional support get the right professionals they need to support them. Multi agency working may include people form professional backgrounds such as social workers, health , education, early years, youth work, police and youth justice. Because children, young people and family’s needs can be very different, the composition of a multi-agency team will differ from case to case. It is important each practitioner brings with them their own specialist skills, so that the child, young person and family gets the best support possible.
Tassoni. P (2007) says that “we need to work as part of a team to provide a quality service for children and their parents”. We also need to work with the parents and show respect towards them and encourage parent’s involvement within the setting. Tassoni says that “early years setting will have a management structure which should clarify practitioner’s responsibilities”. A responsibility practitioners have is to make sure the health of the child is paramount this could be by preventing hazards and carrying out risk assessments and safety checks.
Children may need assistance with everyday self-help (personal) skills but are usually keen to help. They show knowledge of familiar care
1.1 Why effective communication is important in developing positive relationships with Children, Young people and Adults. Communicating effectively within the school setting, is very important to enable strong relationships to build between children, young people and adults. Developing positive relationships with the children is the main key to a happy and calm environment. Without a positive and supportive attitude there will be no trust or honesty between yourself and the children. They will not feel like they can talk to you which may mean they could be keeping something important inside, which could affect their learning or social skills.
The course involves learning by practical application also task and assessments, along with work placement. This is offered to the candidate, prior to getting a job at the nursery as through work placement, they would know the staff and children, ensuring them an improved chance. The college strategy of offering work placements around different areas, helps to expand the student’s education and experience. This course is designed to assist individuals, with their physical or emotional care, daily living needs or maintaining their independence. It is extremely relevant for nursery nurses, health care assistants and day service assistants.
Staff It is important that staff have good communication because staff need to tell each other important information about one of the children. For example if one of the parents tell one of the staff about their child having a medical condition this is important that the staff communicate with each other for the child’s safety. Parents Good communication with the parent affects all aspects of work early years setting because if the parent has a good relationship with the staff they will feel more comfortable and happier leaving their child in the work setting, and also the child could sense this too. For example if the parent had good communication and relationship with the staff, if there child was crying one day when the parent dropped the child off, she won’t be as worried because she will have more trust in the staff. Bruce, Grenier, Meggitt & Kamen