another. Children naturally pass through a number of stages as they grow and develop. Therefore during their lifetime all children will experience change in some way‚ shape or form. This may be due to starting nursery‚ moving home‚ welcoming a new baby into the family etc. These changes are commonly referred to as transitions. A child is expected to cope with changes such as movement from nursery education to primary school and then on from primary school to secondary school etc. How a child copes
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Unit 2.4 - Equality‚ diversity and inclusion in work with children and young people. 1. Understand the importance of promoting equality and diversity in work with children and young people. 1.1 Identify the current legislation and codes of practice relevant to the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity. In the setting there is a range of policies which formally sets out guidelines and procedures for ensuring equality. Policies takes account of the rights of all individuals and
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INFLUENCES THAT AFFECT CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLES DEVELOPMENT Children will come from a diverse range of backgrounds including family environments cultures and circumstances. A child is at school from a very young age to late teens and during this time many families will go through significant changes. Sometimes however schools may not always be aware of these changes. Any one of these happenings may affect their emotional and or intellectual development‚ this in turn can affect their behaviour
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in work with children & young people This unit focuses on the importance of promoting equality and diversity in all aspects of work with children and young people. You will explore how prejudice and discrimination impacts on individuals and groups in a school setting and ways that you can support policies and procedures to break down barriers. By the end of this unit you will: understand the importance of promoting equality and diversity in work with children and young people understand the
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the welfare of children and young people 1.1 Safeguarding legislations: Health and safety policy Healthy and safety at work act (1974) Every child matters framework (covered on page 20) Working together to safeguard children (2006 and 2010) Safeguarding policy Children act (1989 and 2004) Child protection policy E-safety Children Act: The Children’s Act came in to force in 1989 and was drafted complement the Human Rights Act but be specific to children. The act puts into
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psychological research tell us about ‘egocentrism’ in young children?” “Egocentrism is the tendency of children to cognize their environment only in terms of their own point of view” (Castillo‚ R.J‚ 1954). This technical meaning for the term was given by Jean Piaget who suggests that it is a state of mind where the child attempts to understand the world from their own point of view and fails to realise that other people’s points of view are different from theirs. Egocentrism is the unawareness of the
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Social‚ economic and cultural factors that effect development The social factors that can affect the way in which a child or young person develop are firstly peoples views within society especially for disabled people they are pre judges and discriminated against because of their disability because of this they are being marginalised from society and excluded from such things like social events. Young person that are in the care system can be affected as they are not having consistency within
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1. Know how to interact with and respond to children and young people (1.1) Describe how to establish respectful‚ professional relationships with children and young people (1.2) Describe with examples how to behave appropriately for a child or young person’s stage of development To establish respectful and professional relationships with children and young people‚ there are many procedures to achieve this. The way to do this would be by the way an adult interacts with a child
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Piaget’s Theory of the development of children Have you ever thought of how a child’ mind works and how they learn? Well Jean Piaget has‚ he developed the theory that all children learn through four different stages of development. The stages he unveiled are; sensorimotor‚ preoperational‚ concrete operations‚ and formal operations. He believes that each stage is just built on the previous‚ and I highly agree with this theory of development. Each stage he developed is also arranged into an age sequence
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after children and young people. E-safety is a safeguarding issue and we must have an understanding of it. Children and young people are open to many risks while being online or using their mobile phones‚ they may be lured into giving personal information; name‚ age‚ address and telephone numbers which could be used for identity theft or fraud. This also opens the possibilities for the abuse of children and young people to occur. Dr Tanya Byron outlined in her 2008 report ‘Safer children in a digital
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