The environment plays an important role in ensuring the safety in a childcare centre. Although supervising and ensuring the safety of children is part of an educator’s responsibility, it is impossible to supervise everyone around the clock. Thus, identifying and eliminating potential hazards will help educators to create a safe environment for children to play and move freely.
outside going to play yard but it can not count as ventilation since there was no locking screen or safety half gate/door to keep the children from leaving the door unattended.
Risk assessments should be carried out regularly to make sure that there are no safe guard threats towards the children in the setting. Childcare settings need risk assessing for example is there entrances and exits to the building that an unauthorised person could use? Could a child leave the setting without anyone noticing? Could a child get seriously hurt due to a broken piece of equipment?
Keeping children safe and maintain them in a health environment; Safety of the child is vital, this is because they are too young to understand what is going on sometimes. Moreover its important children are kept within a healthy and safe environment, because they are protected from any accidents occurring. For example in a nursery, the outside door isn’t locked and opens, the children playing inside and a nursery nurse is not present, anything can occur and the children can walk out of the door and an incident may take place and the might get injured. So it’s important for the door to only be open when there are nursery nurses are present, so no incidents take place. Hence, maintaining the child’s safety in a health environment consists of the child getting fed properly, the food should be edible and
There should be first aid kits in every classroom for safety and preparation of teacher’s confidence toward safety. Supervision is important however, it helps with children and teacher’s safety. Teacher’s should check any equipment at least three times a week to make sure everything is a safe environment for children. If emergency is at extreme levels there should be an emergency preparation plan in every daycare or public school
There will be numerous policies and procedures within a setting and Staff need to be aware of them. There will be a number of other policies written to safeguard the children, young people, staff, and visitors from danger and to ensure safe practice throughout the setting. The purpose of this policy is to maintain an environment where children feel secure, are encouraged to talk, and are listened to. Also children know that there are adults in the day care centre who they can approach if they have any issues for example if a child is suffering from neglect at home the staff at the day care centre and other multi agencies will work together to improve the child’s situation, so that he will stop suffering from neglect at home.
It is important when planning and setting up learning activities that indoor and outdoor environments are hazard free and that staff and pupils will be able to work safely. The following factors must be taken into account when planning healthy and safe indoor and outdoor environments and services;
In order to ensure a safe and healthy environment and services for children/young people there are some factors which need to be taken into account. These include any equipment which they will be in contact with, such as electrical equipment, anything which may pose a fire risk, any damaged furniture or fixtures which they may come into contact with. If there are any cables or anything they may trip over as well as any spillages or anything they may slip on and fall. All if these issues need to be taken into account
Health and safety policies and procedures help to provide a safe setting for children, parents, staff and volunteers. The policies and procedures will include: risk assessments, security, hygiene, fire emergency, first aid, sickness, accidents and incidents. Good quality care consists of taking steps to prevent illness and accidents, being prepared to deal with emergencies if and when they occur and educating children about health and safety matters. Nursery staff will report any item, practice or event which may affect the safety of children or adults, and the appropriate action
Health and safety is one of the key policies to maintaining the wellbeing of the children and the staff of a childcare centre. This essay will discuss two of the health and safety policies that we use in my home centre. The essay will firstly identify which ECE licencing criterion they relate to, my responsibility in ensuring they are implemented, and lastly the learning opportunities for the children that can be promoted from the implementation of these policies.
There will be numerous policies and procedures within a setting and Staff need to be aware of them. There will be a number of other policies written to safeguard the children, young people, staff, and visitors from danger and to ensure safe practice throughout the setting. The purpose of this policy is to maintain an environment where children feel secure, are encouraged to talk, and are listened to. Also children know that there are adults in the day care centre who they can approach if they have any issues for example if a child is suffering from neglect at home the staff at the day care centre and other multi agencies will work together to improve the child’s situation, so that he will stop suffering from neglect at home.
My observations both did and did not reflect what I learned in this course. This could be due to the fact that this daycare center may not be the best learning environment. A perfect daycare center would be everything that is described in the Petersen & Wittmer text, but how often do you get somewhere that is perfect? I feel my quality could have been better for this observation because I filled out of checklist with a majority of it is “NA.” I wish I would have had this checklist when I started my observations. I could have tested some of them with the children to make it more accurate. Since I do work at this daycare, I used my background knowledge as well as my observation sheets to fill out this checklist. My observations could have been
More and more research tells us that our children’s health development depends on safe and positive experiences during the first few years of life. Ensuring children’s physical safety while they are at child care should be a top priority. The following 13 areas should be examined carefully.
The factors that led to child day care center include: that all families cannot afford to provide appropriate physical environment for their children at home. Parents especially mothers don’t have ample time to care for their children because they have to earn money for living. Otherwise, there is no emotionally equal and effective love, care, and provision of safety that match parents. Also the popular assumption that children should start interacting with peers early on in life. The assumption that early interaction with peer only leads to positive behavior is controversial. It may as well lead to some children showing dominance over their peer group or development of aggressive or shy behavior in some children. There are other factors as
Michael has always been taking care of since birth by his mother, Jade. Jade is in the army and is being deployed to Germany. Jade and Anthony both work and need to get Michael a day care site. Michael was staying at the family day care site, at 18 months old while his dad work. Four months after Michaelś mom left, Michael was no longer at the family day care site, instead he was enrolled in a center day care site closer to his dad new work location. Michael’s vocabulary increased, as well as his concentration, and he started to be interested in playing with other children.
This essay will discuss, firstly some parents argue that childcare centers offer the best care services for kids and secondly, others working parents believe that relatives such as grandparents are better at taking care of children. Personally, childcare centers is the best choice. Discuss below are several reasons supporting my perspective.