The early year’s foundation stage legislative framework ensures that early years’ children must learn and progress to have enough knowledge they need to start school and ensures that children are healthy and safe.
Here is the list of children from birth to five years old entitlements: -
• Sure start children’s centre is working with the parent’s right from the birth of the child by providing early years’ education, health, family support, parenting advice includes training and employment advice, full day care and short day care.
• Childminders are looking after children under the age of 12.
• The nursery is a childcare centre that offers activities and learning skills for children 2-4 years old, children entitled …show more content…
to 15 hours free a week for free early education.
Nurseries provide to pre-school children skills such as art, sand, water play, music, books, and stories, etc.
• Children age 3-4 entitled to nursery place on school sites.
• Play groups and pre-school provides part-time play and early learning education for children under five.
Also, children with learning difficulties have the right to special education needs or an education health and care plan.
Assessment criteria 11.1.2
Types of schools: -
• Community schools - it’s their responsibilities to employs staff, own the school building and set the school criteria to decide what children are eligible for a place in the school as it’s directed by the local council.
The local education authority decides which admission criteria they use if they have more applicants than places.
List of the school admission criteria: - The priority for the child who has a sibling in the school, the child lives in the school area, when the child has disabilities that make traveling to the school hard for them.
The local education authority (LEA) provides support services for children to improve their learning such as special educational needs services, psychological, learning programmes and childcare.
Children must follow the national curriculum.
Types of voluntary schools are: - Voluntary aided schools are religious or faith schools such as foundation schools. School buildings and the school land are owned by a charity such as church but the government body is in charge of running the school and responsible for maintaining the building and also in charge for the maintenance costs. The school employs its own staff and set the entrance criteria.
The local education authority provides educational support services when needed and children who attend a voluntary aided school must follow the national curriculum except religious studies as they are free to teach their own religion.
Voluntary controlled schools are supported by the local education authority as the school is owned by a charity like church, children must follow the national curriculum.
The local education authority is in charge of running the school also in charge for employing staff for the school.
• Free schools are set up by the teachers, community or faith groups, charities, group of parents. Universities etc.
• Free schools are focusing on how to improve the children’s education in the area as they can set their own conditions, staff salaries, change the length of school terms and the school days.
Children have to meet the school curriculum and are the same Ofsted inspections as all government schools.
• foundation schools are managed by the governing body and it’s their responsibilities to employ the staff and set the school entrance criteria. The governing body maintains the school and the buildings.
• Trust schools are receiving help and support from a charitable trust to get educational donations for the school’s benefit.
• Special school - children at special school have been assessed and has been given a statement of their special educational needs which includes what the child has of physical disabilities or with their learning difficulties
Special schools are supported by the local education authority such as community schools, voluntary – aided or controlled school, foundation special schools as some of the special schools are independent.
• Private Schools it’s an independent school. Private schools are independent on their finance as they are funded by a contribution of tuition fees that are paid by the parent’s
income.
Private schools don’t have to follow the national curriculum as it’s not managed by the local education authority.