Unit 5 Professional Care In Children's Care Learning And Development
Claire Daniel
Unit 5: Professional care in children’s care learning and development.
1. Understand the values, principals and statutory frameworks that underpin service provisions in children’s care, learning and development.
1.1 ‘National Occupational Standards (NOS) describe best practice by bringing together skills, knowledge and values. National Occupational Standards are valuable tools to be used as benchmarks for qualifications as well as for defining roles at work, staff recruitment, supervision and appraisal.’
(www.skillsforcare.org.uk 18/04/15)
The standards are for people who work with children …show more content…
They underpin the whole set of standards and impact on families when they are used within everyday routines.
For example a nursery assistant who is carrying out training will undergo regular visits from their assessor who will evaluate their ability to work within the context of the set principles and values in order to sign off written work and observations, which will enable them to achieve their qualification and become a qualified nursery nurse.
Other values and principles in the NOS are reflected within the nurseries policies and procedures and mission statement for example: ’The welfare of the child is paramount’. All staff and students are made aware of these within their induction and training and must sign that they have read and understand them before their employment can commence.
‘the paramountcy principle’ stems from the Family Law Act 1975, detailed in the Children Act 1989, in which it is stated that the best interest of the child must be regarded as the paramount consideration when making specified decisions regarding the child’s health and …show more content…
-Allows team members to reflect on influential factors that affected their practice at the time that they may not have previously considered.
-May pin point strengths and weaknesses.
-Allows practitioners to consider and develop more effective future strategies.
Cons
-The practitioner may be biased of their actions.
-A long process that time may not always allow for them to complete.
-A future reflection will need to be completed for a similar situation in order to review progress in practice.
Borton’s Developmental Framework (1970)
This is a simple model that is suitable for novice practitioners, at its simplest it’s three steps can be summarised as:
What?
So what?
Now what?
i.e. the What questions such as: What happened?, What was I doing? Serve to identify the experience and describe it in detail.
The So what? Questions include questions like: So what do I need to know in order to understand this situation? So what does this tell me about me? About my relationship with the subject? With the other members of the team? i.e. the practitioner breaks down the situation and tries to make sense of it by analysing and evaluating in order to draw
Unit 5: Professional care in children’s care learning and development.
1. Understand the values, principals and statutory frameworks that underpin service provisions in children’s care, learning and development.
1.1 ‘National Occupational Standards (NOS) describe best practice by bringing together skills, knowledge and values. National Occupational Standards are valuable tools to be used as benchmarks for qualifications as well as for defining roles at work, staff recruitment, supervision and appraisal.’
(www.skillsforcare.org.uk 18/04/15)
The standards are for people who work with children …show more content…
They underpin the whole set of standards and impact on families when they are used within everyday routines.
For example a nursery assistant who is carrying out training will undergo regular visits from their assessor who will evaluate their ability to work within the context of the set principles and values in order to sign off written work and observations, which will enable them to achieve their qualification and become a qualified nursery nurse.
Other values and principles in the NOS are reflected within the nurseries policies and procedures and mission statement for example: ’The welfare of the child is paramount’. All staff and students are made aware of these within their induction and training and must sign that they have read and understand them before their employment can commence.
‘the paramountcy principle’ stems from the Family Law Act 1975, detailed in the Children Act 1989, in which it is stated that the best interest of the child must be regarded as the paramount consideration when making specified decisions regarding the child’s health and …show more content…
-Allows team members to reflect on influential factors that affected their practice at the time that they may not have previously considered.
-May pin point strengths and weaknesses.
-Allows practitioners to consider and develop more effective future strategies.
Cons
-The practitioner may be biased of their actions.
-A long process that time may not always allow for them to complete.
-A future reflection will need to be completed for a similar situation in order to review progress in practice.
Borton’s Developmental Framework (1970)
This is a simple model that is suitable for novice practitioners, at its simplest it’s three steps can be summarised as:
What?
So what?
Now what?
i.e. the What questions such as: What happened?, What was I doing? Serve to identify the experience and describe it in detail.
The So what? Questions include questions like: So what do I need to know in order to understand this situation? So what does this tell me about me? About my relationship with the subject? With the other members of the team? i.e. the practitioner breaks down the situation and tries to make sense of it by analysing and evaluating in order to draw