Early years settings
Early years is an important sector which involves high standards of professional practice. Practitioners pay an important role in helping to shape the lives of the future generations. Early years settings support diversity inclusion and participation. Early year settings are funded from ages 2 years 6 months although in some cases the child may get funded from 2 years, for instance if the child is disabled, or maybe from a disadvantaged family or even a child who are the subject of safeguarding issues and are in need of protection. Early year settings are many different things for example;
Pre-schools
Pre-schools are done in sessions either a morning or afternoon session, an amount of sessions are funded by the government and if you would want your child to do more than the amount of sessions funded you have to pay. Standard funding starts at around 2 years 9 months but in special cases they can get funded from 2 years. Some pre-schools are Voluntary and some statutory.
Nurseries
Nurseries are normally open from 7am-7pm they are usually privately owned and take babies from roughly 6 weeks to 6 years for after school clubs, fees vary from each nursery and are usually on private land.
Reception class
For children aged 4, based in the school a normal school day roughly from 9am-3pm and is funded. Reception classes are statutory.
Play-groups
Play groups are mostly voluntary and open to children from about 2 and a half and are held in most community centres and community halls/churches there is usually a small fee for a snack.
Every early year setting will include the EYFS and uphold the EYFS policies.
Including parents
Early years recognises that it is imperative to include the parents/carers in their child’s setting life. Settings have certain polices to help include the parents for example the “open door” policy where parents are welcome to come in and speak to the staff having the door open makes it more approachable and
Bibliography: www.crae.org.uk/rights/uncrc.html 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sure_Start 2012 http://www.farmingforall.org.uk/every_child_matters.html 2012