Assignment Number: Assignment 5 - "Discuss the importance of partnerships in a child care setting and how these might be developed and maintained for the benefit of the children."
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A practitioners job is not only to ensure the safety of the children and to plan structured day to day activities but also to ensure that various partnerships and created within the child care setting.
"Professional relationships are absolutely vital to the smooth running of an early years setting." Early Years Foundation Level 4, Unit 5 (Respecting each other) - Professional relationships page 69.
Depending on the child care environment practitioners can work with one or two assistants depending on the age group and adult to child ratio. Maintaining a happy and trusted partnership within in a team in a classroom can then benefit ways the classroom run and undertake various tasks together.
Knowing your teams strengths and having trust in each other not only encourages mirror behaviour with children in the child care setting but allows practitioners and assistants to develop further in current or new skills.
"In order to build on your relationship with others it's important that you respect and value your own strengths, skills and knowledge as well as recognising the contribution made by other." Early Years Foundation Level 4 Unit 5 (Respecting each other) - Professional relationships page 69.
For some children then partnership they create with a practitioner could be one of the main interactions they have with an adult through the day. i.e. focusing on child who spend alot of time with maids or nanny's.
Having good partnerships with collegues allows a practitioner to establish a good and effective working relationship to ensure that everyone works together as part of a team. This is to essentially benefit the children.
As well as a good partnership with collegues adults need to