1.1 Describe the social, economic and cultural factors that will impact on the lives of children and young people.
Every one is an individual and so everyone has individual needs. It is important that as a practitioner that I always take this into consideration and consider the fact that each child will also experience their own personal situations which are unique to them. These unique situations often include social, economical and cultural difficulties and this may delay, stop or help a child advance the development of a child or young person and have an affect on them reaching their full potential. “Many issues in our wider society will affect the lives of the young children you are working with.” quote from Children and Young People’s Workforce- early learning and childcare by Penny Tassoni, Kate Beith, Kath Bulman and Sue Griffin, Series Consultant Maureen Smith. From Page 185. A good example of this is when I was working in a run down area where most of the children in my class were from unemployed or ethnic backgrounds. This has an impact on the child as they often suffer from bad health incurred by inappropriate clothing, accommodation and food which could all be solved if there families had more finances available to them. I also found that these children also were less likely to complete homework and spoke an increased amount of slang which meant that their intellectual development suffered greatly. Lots of the children in my class either spoke little or no English and so this also had an impact on their development. There are lots of different factors which impact on children’s life’s. Some of these factors include personal choices, disability, educational environment, looked after children, health status of self or family member, housing and community, anti-social behaviour, poverty, health support, marginalisation and exclusion, bereavement and loss,