Standard 1 Understanding the principles and values essential to fostering children and young people. Principles & Values: A Early experiences significantly impact later life. Children learn from birth. The most significant brain development happens in the early years. Early education results from interactions between children and all adults who serve as their caregivers, including parents, relatives, baby sitters, teachers, and foster carers. Values inform or influence choices and action across a wide range of role and context. Successful evolution in culture, systems and practices across a diverse needs base. To be dependent partly upon on a shared philosophy and value base and this needs to be both practical and relevant to …show more content…
• Providing additional help that is appropriate, proportionate and timely: providing help as early as possible and considering short and long-term needs by needing to focus on the primary needs of the child (core needs) first as needs may be many needs so it is appropriate to meet the most demanding needs first then work out from that need to other needs as a structured response. • Working in partnership with families: supporting, wherever possible, those who know the child or young person well, know what they need, what works well for them and what may not be helpful as any information given will help the child and reduce any problems later (what food do they like) or triggers etc • Respecting confidentiality and sharing information: seeking agreement to share information that is relevant and proportionate while safeguarding children and young people's right to confidentiality as defined in the DPA and in line with local policys • Promoting the same values across all working relationships: recognising respect, patience, honesty, reliability, resilience and integrity are qualities valued by children, young people, their families and colleagues. • Making the most of bringing together each worker's expertise: respecting the contribution of others and bringing together all services into a usable tool to help serve the looked after child better and this also helps foster
For child protection to work effectively we must ensure we have good inter relationships with other agencies and good co-operation from professionals that are competent in responding to child protection situations. A procedure for recording concerns and incidents if a child discloses information that concerns his/her welfare; We must make a record of exactly what the child has said in their words and report it to a safeguarding officer, ensuring that these records are kept confidential and separated from pupil’s records. Guidance on confidentiality and sharing; the head teacher or safeguarding officer will only disclose personal information concerning a child to other members of staff on a need to know basis, however all staff must be aware that they have a responsibility to share information with other agencies.
All members of the staff must act as professionals while at work, especially with young children. The administrative and teaching staff must work together to ensure their practices are developmentally appropriate, and share new and/or creative ideas with one another. It is also the responsibility of a teacher to establish an open, trusting relationship with the parents of each children in their care. Thus, parents can freely communicate their thoughts, concerns, and/or suggestions about their child or the program. Parent satisfaction is something that every child care or development center should strive for.
Recognising, and getting to know each person as an individual and being responsive to their individual needs as well as family characteristics
The overarching concept of ‘Getting it right for every child’ is to develop a common approach across all agencies, that supports the delivery of appropriate, proportionate and timely help to all children and young people as they need it. “ the right help, at the right time, in the right way” (GIRFEC)
By studying a child and early year practitioner can spot any issues that may be present and make sure that the child is given the best support should this require.
As the primary provider of these children and their families, I will collaborate with caregivers and parents to identify and design intervention strategies to enhance the child’s development. This is in accordance with the transdisciplinary model of intervention, in which the primary provider works directly with the family and the child; while other professionals support him/her by suggesting intervention strategies and sharing information for their field of expertise (Raver & Childress, 2015). This impacts greatly both the family, as they interact with fewer people, something that makes them feel less overwhelmed, and the primary provider as he/she feels competent to apply intervention strategies that have been taught from other professionals (King, Strachan, Tucker, Duwyn, Desserud, & Shillington, 2009).
• Staff to attend child protection and first aid courses. In cases of special schools staff should have appropriate training on medical issues on safeguarding all children.
Ability to listen effectively so that views of the children and their parents /carers effect appropriate involvement in care planning
It’s very important to work with families when it comes to their children’s learning. Children gain confidence by seeing their parents working with staff in the setting. Parents and families, who work with staff at their child’s school or nursery, will find that influences the way their children act at home. Having support from both parents/carers will encourage good relationships between the setting and the home, encouraging the families’ confidence and self-esteem. Practitioners can work in different ways to involve parents such as open days, newsletters, notice boards, parent-toddler clubs, day-to-day informal conversation, toy library, social activities, help with outings, reading with children, coffee mornings, school assembly, parent’s room and exhibitions of children’s work.
The principle of designing services around children and young people is to be able to meet all their needs. Every child is unique , it is important that all practitioners understand this. Firstly you need to establish what their care needs are so you are able to meet them in the correct way. This can be done by communicating with parents and other services connected with the child. If the service is meeting the individuals needs the parents/ careers should have no reason to be unhappy with the service provided and the child should remain in the setting. The children must be encouraged to meet their full potential. The 5 outcomes of the Every Child Matters provides a requirement for settings to aim high for the children in their care ensuring they have the opportunity to achieve each one of them and this must be
With the Data Protection Act (1998), the nursery has to control and protect the handling of the personal information of children and parents. Recklessness and naivety can cause personal information being let out into the public eye. Staff writing down children’s or their parent’s personal details or opinions can end up open to public view. This can be minimised by making sure all data is
Share any information that may be useful in assessments made regarding the child’s needs and circumstances.
All practitioners involved with children have a role. A child's key person could arrange to meet the parents and the health visitor for example to discuss the extent to which a child is healthy, safe from harm, learning and developing well, socialising and making positive relationships with others and not significantly impaired by the effects of poverty.
which holds that people are the most important resource in the organization as they are
Values are those things that are important, meaningful and valued by an individual, a group of people, or an organization. Whether we are aware of them or not, every individual has his or her core set of values, which consist of many different kinds of values. Each individual’s value system is different from one another because individual’s values are built up through one’s life experience, environment, and family background. Values are important to us because they reflect our personal moral standards, shape our behavior, and guide us through long life journeys. Since we live in a highly connected society, each person’s value system does not only affect one’s own life, but also affects many other people and the