Unit 1 Assignment: Introduction to working with children - people, settings and responsibilities.

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Unit 1 Assignment:

Introduction to working with children

D1:

A statutory setting that is run by the state is a nursery school and is free of charge because it is funded by the government through the local  nursery school is for children under 5 years and has qualifed teachers and professionals. Nursery schools follow the early foundation stage which mandory for all schools and early years settings the early foundation stage forus on 6 areas of learning e.g.: communication language and lieracy, knowlegde and understanding of the world, physical development, creavtive development, personal soaicl and emotional development, problem solving, reasoning and numeracy. Most nursery schools opening times are 9:00am – 3:15pm and open only term time only.

A statutory setting that is run by the state is a primary school and is free of charge because it is funded by the government through the local  primary schools aims is to care and teach for children 5 years and over and follow the national curriculum which is to provide opptunites for all pupils to learn and to achieve the core subjects for primary school 5 – 7years(Key Stage 1) is english, maths, science, art, design and technology, ICT, music and PE. Most primary schools open 9:00am – 3:30pm and open term time only.

D2:

One of a private provision is a child minder is a qualified professional who provides care for a child in their own home for more than 2 hours a day child minders have to be registered with OFSTED. OFSTED is the office for standards in education children services and skills they inspect local services e.g.: nurseries, primary schools etc.. Child minders follow the early foundation stage child minders opening times are usually 6:00am – 6:30pm 5 days a week child minders also charge for this service most are £3.80 per hour but it depends on the area you live.

One of a private provision is a play centre they provide care for children 5 years and over children will go to play centre after school and in half terms. Play centre charge for this service most of them are £1.50 per night there opening times are 3:30pm – 6:00pm term times only and 9:00am – 4:00pm half term and six weeks holiday £20 per day. At play centers, they do all kind of activities like sports, board games, homework and trips to theme parks and museums.

D3:

An example of a professional who works with children is a health visitor they are qualified nurses there role is to help children and adults to stay healthy ad to avoid illness they go to babies houses after they had not long been born and check there health and the environment is safe around them. Health visitors can also help with other kind of stuff like e.g.: bereavement, depression, women's health e.g. menopause and breast screening etc they work with all age groups. Health visitors are work closely with health centre’s or clinics, practice nurses, district nurses, school health nurses, midwives, social workers and school teachers, health centre’s or clinics where they will tell you to go to get immunisations for the baby.

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D4:

Confidential information about children in a setting should be stored securely in a locked cupboard or the mangers office and handled with care confidential information should not be lying around for other people that it does not concern about will have access to them. Prationers should understand the settings confidential policy, which says “you must respect confidential information about the children to your self or the staffs that need to know about it e.g.: Manager, parents”. All confidential information should be available for the child’s individual parents/careers to view.

D5:

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