INTRODUCTION As part of my Health and Social care �A� level I have been asked to produce a report on Communication and care values.� For me to produce my report I need to undertake a placement in one of the following areas, where I will research and conclude my findings based on my initial report.� Here are the following settings or service user groups that I will have to choose from to base my report on: � Health
� Early years � (care and education)
� Care of older people
� Individual with specific needs The setting or service user group that I will be focusing on through this report is: Early years � (care and education) And the placement that I have chosen to base my report on is: �Nursery The purpose/objective of this report will be the following: � The types and range of communication skills you have used, and an awareness of the care value base.
� The transmission of the care values in the way you have communicated with the person concerned.
� Possible barriers to communication and how you overcome these.
� An evaluation of the interactions and conclusions drawn from the evidence collected. These are the objectives that I will have to look for and carry out at my nursery placement and with the children � (service user group) and then I will have to make comparisons between the interactions made.
THEORY WHAT IS COMMUNICATION? It is a learned skill, we must learn to speak well and communicate effectively. Speaking, listening and our ability to understand verbal and non-verbal meanings are skills we develop in various ways. We learn basic communication skills by observing other people and modelling our behaviours based on what we see.
TYPES OF COMMUNICATIONS
The different types of communication are the following: Language � spoken,