Graded Unit Action Plan
Action Plan
Title:
The importance of Playgroups for children and the impact the SSSC qualification requirements may have on them.
Aim:
My aim is to investigate and show the benefits that playgroups have for under fives in Scotland and I would like to analyse the impact that the SSSC qualifications requirements may have on practitioners and how it may affect the service they provide to children and stakeholders. I will aim to link my research to the following Units
F56Y 35 Childhood Practice and Social Services: Developing Leadership
DN1H 35 Managing Quality in Early Education and Childcare Settings
F56B 35 Developing Professional Childhood Practice
F56A 35 Integrated Working and Collaborative Practice
Rationale
The basis for this research is down to the amount of changes that we as child practitioners have gone through when it comes to qualifications. I am on the PDA Childhood Practice Course and on starting the course was informed that the regulations had changed and all managers were required to go on and achieve a Degree. In my mind as well as other managers I have spoken to, they felt that this would bring about a change in the future of playgroups. This in turn has led me to research the importance that playgroups hold in communities for children and their families, and to try and establish exactly how managers and practitioners feel the changes will affect playgroups . What I would like to find out from my research is
1. how playgroups help our children to develop
2. What influences parents on choosing playgroups
3. Current thoughts of practitioners and managers on the new qualification requirements
4. the levels of qualifications held by managers and practitioners
5. Once qualified, whether managers and practitioners leave of stay in their setting.
In collecting the above evidence I will have to set out questionnaires for parents and send them out to as many playgroups in the Lothian region and Edinburgh as well as
Title:
The importance of Playgroups for children and the impact the SSSC qualification requirements may have on them.
Aim:
My aim is to investigate and show the benefits that playgroups have for under fives in Scotland and I would like to analyse the impact that the SSSC qualifications requirements may have on practitioners and how it may affect the service they provide to children and stakeholders. I will aim to link my research to the following Units
F56Y 35 Childhood Practice and Social Services: Developing Leadership
DN1H 35 Managing Quality in Early Education and Childcare Settings
F56B 35 Developing Professional Childhood Practice
F56A 35 Integrated Working and Collaborative Practice
Rationale
The basis for this research is down to the amount of changes that we as child practitioners have gone through when it comes to qualifications. I am on the PDA Childhood Practice Course and on starting the course was informed that the regulations had changed and all managers were required to go on and achieve a Degree. In my mind as well as other managers I have spoken to, they felt that this would bring about a change in the future of playgroups. This in turn has led me to research the importance that playgroups hold in communities for children and their families, and to try and establish exactly how managers and practitioners feel the changes will affect playgroups . What I would like to find out from my research is
1. how playgroups help our children to develop
2. What influences parents on choosing playgroups
3. Current thoughts of practitioners and managers on the new qualification requirements
4. the levels of qualifications held by managers and practitioners
5. Once qualified, whether managers and practitioners leave of stay in their setting.
In collecting the above evidence I will have to set out questionnaires for parents and send them out to as many playgroups in the Lothian region and Edinburgh as well as