Explain why it is important to communicate effectively with adults in the childrens care learning and development sector.

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Unit 1 – Task 3

Part 2

Explain why it is important to communicate effectively with adults in the children’s care learning and development sector.

When early years workers are working with children it means that they will also have to work with adults whether it is the children’s parents, colleagues or other professionals. They need to be able to communicate effectively with all adults when they are in the early years worker role in order for everyone to work together with the interests of the child and their well-being being put first. Children are very good at picking up on peoples bad relationships and people who are communicating poorly when these people are close and important to them. This will make the children become unsettled and anxious when they sense the tension between two of the people that mean things to them.

Communicating with adults is very similar to communicating with children and some of the same things apply for adults as children. One of the things is that good communication is the basis of good relationships, as well as the fact that body language and other non-verbal communication is very powerful and often matters more than the words that are being said. Finally effective communication depends on active listening.

The children’s parents

It is an essential part of a job as early years workers to talk, communicate and interact with the children’s parents or carers. This needs to be ...

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The children’s parents

It is an essential part of a job as early years workers to talk, communicate and interact with the children’s parents or carers. This needs to be done closely in order for it to be effective and for the parents and workers to be working together in the interest of the children, as well as for the children’s interests as far as consistency goes and the continuity of their care and learning opportunities. It is important that all early years workers communicate effectively with the parents and carers of the children that are in their care in order for them to be see as a good practitioner to the parents and also so the workers are able to talk to the parents or carers about any issues the children may be having in the nursery, any concerns that they may have, anything that has happened or just generally how they are doing and developing.

Colleagues in the setting

All early years workers should work as a member of a team in order for the setting to be successful, and to ensure that information is shared between colleagues, such as things that need to be shared. Everyone that works in to setting is a colleague, including, admin, cleaning and cooking staff, as things that they tell the early years workers or vice versa can be important and be things that they other needs to know. It is important that all early years workers communicate effectively with their colleagues in order for messages or information about a range of things to be passed on to others in the way that they wanted it to be passed on.

Other professionals

Professionals can have an important part in an early years settings and this is because they are from different agencies and organisations. There will be professionals that come in to inspect the setting and make sure that it is running as it should do, this would mainly be Ofsted, the setting may have social services come in as they are involved with a child who is either already in care and there is a chance that the child is having troubles at home. Whether it is these professionals or others it is important that early years workers communicate effectively with them in order for the children to be seen as being in the best interest of the worker, as well as the workers being able to tell the professional what they want to in the right way and without giving them the wrong message.

Bridie Burgess

CCLD 12B

Mrs Whittington

Unit 1 – Task4