adults and professionals working with children and young people need to act when managing child protection issues. It covers more of the ways in which adults and professionals work together to ensure the safety of children and young people. Safeguarding is designed to ‘prevent’ risks of harm rather than to take action when a child has been the subject of harm. The term child protection‚ on the other hand‚ is more related to policies and procedures
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recently been focused on the importance of early learning experiences on brain development. Newsweek devoted a special edition to the critical first 3 years of a child ’s life and indicated that there is a "window of opportunity" for second language learning starting at 1 year of age. A February 1997 article in Time magazine suggested that foreign languages should be taught to children as early as possible. With so many demands already placed on children‚ parents might ask: Is it important that my
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Resources Welfare Provision and Flexible Working Practices Michelle Kirkham 16/11/2012 Introduction This report will investigate the implications of introducing flexible working and welfare at Paragon. It will support this investigation by identifying welfare provision within Marks and Spencer and Google and compare how effective the initiatives are within their organisations. It also highlights to Keith Teaming‚ the need for welfare provision and flexible working within Paragon. This report
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Principles and Values of working with young children Principles 1. The welfare of the child is paramount. Within my role I have to support children and help them achieve their goals‚ from tying their shoe laces to providing skills to help young people to live in the community. I have to make sure all staff promotes a warm‚ caring‚ supportive‚ positive and tolerant atmosphere. This is to help work on raising the child’s self-esteem‚ self-confidence and self-worth. I have to be very creative in
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Each one of the early years educators has played an important role in setting the foundations that is the basis of the main curriculum’s and foundation frameworks in schools today. Maria Montessori believed in independence in nurseries and that children should be taught to use their senses first rather than just educating their intellect with subjects such as maths and science. These of course came later in the children’s education but the main focus within her nurseries was to develop observational
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care and education for children in your area. This must include one example from the list: statutory sector‚ voluntary sector and private sector. The statutory sector involves all the organisations that are set up‚ controlled and funded by the government or local authority for example: St. Anthony’s Catholic Primary School. This type of sector is funded by people who pay tax or national insurance. Another type of setting which provides care and education for children in my area is sure start
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Multi- Professional and Multi- agency working “Multi-agency working brings together practitioners from different sectors and professions to provide an integrated way of working to support children‚ young people and families.” (DfES‚ 2001) In this essay my aim is to demonstrate an understanding of the collaborative skills required for effective multi professional practice. I will include feedback following a group presentation that I took part in and give my personal reflections of the process
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do in the setting to ensure children are kept safe and healthy. It means a whole range of policies and procedures. Child protection is one aspect of this and is how our setting ensures children are protected from abuse. The 2008 Statutory Guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is underpinned by the positive outcomes of Every Child Matters and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) (UN‚1989) which places a duty of care on Early Years Practitioners and Managers
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Schools work in partnership with a big range of external agencies or/and professionals such as OFSTED‚ counsellors‚ specialist teachers‚ educational psychologists‚ SENCO‚ social workers‚ speech and language therapists and many others. The use of experts is widespread and there are many other external professionals who may work with schools on an ad-hoc or regular basis. These experts will usually bring a high degree of specific professional knowledge and specialist skills which teachers themselves
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Angela Eddy Buchanan English 101-4: Research Paper 20 June 2013 Benefits of Early Literacy Learning Education is a fundamental aspect of a person’s social‚ economic‚ and emotional developmental. Starting education early is therefore advantageous. Focusing specifically on early literacy; statistics prove that an early literary development can radically improve a child’s chance for a formidable career. Early literacy developmental practices have been taking place for many years now. Many different
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