Since 2004 all children in the UK aged three and four years old have been entitled to free places at nursery or another preschool setting (including child-minders). From 1st September 2010 the Government extended these hours from 12.5 to 15 hours for up to 38 weeks of the year. The free entitlement provides universal access to early childhood education and care‚ ensuring that all children have the opportunity to benefit from early years education. The extended hours also supports parents who wish
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1 The range of provision which is available for parents to access for their children are: Pre- schools Day nurseries Children and family centres These are to be found in the private‚ voluntary or independent sector. The purpose of the early year’s sector is to care for and educate children and the these settings provide for babies and children which are put into a day nursery for parents/careers to go back to work. Children are put into sessional settings for social and educational
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Question 1 D1: An example of a statutory provision for children under 5 years is a nursery. A nursery helps children learn to communicate‚ reach a certain level of independency and helps the children understand the stuff e.g. numbers‚ colours‚ fruits‚ animals etc. It also allows children to learn new things in a fun environment and at their own pace. A nursery helps to get children into a routine of a classroom. Nurseries often have designated times for different activities and helps the children learn
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proposals were about raising standards and only those nurseries that hired staff with higher qualifications would be able to take on more children. It would no longer be acceptable that childcare professionals are not required to have a GCSE grade C or above in English and maths. However‚ this would apply to new nursery staff only. This proposal caused a lot of concern with both parents and also early year’s practitioners such as childminders & nursery staff. They felt that the increase in children
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of children‚ parents and carers. Nursery settings are integrated as they offer a variety of services in one place‚ e.g. integrated early education and child care; provide a range of community and health services. Professionals that work together to support children; Parents/carers Advisors Social workers Speech and language therapists Play specialists Educational psychologists The importance of multi agency and integrated working‚ A child who is in a nursery setting‚ may have a range of needs
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Assessment task – EYMP1 Context and principles for early years provision Task 1 links to learning outcome 1‚ assessment criteria 1.1‚ 1.2‚ 1.3‚ 3.1‚ 3.2‚ 3.3 and 3.4. Scenario: A childcare setting is preparing for their annual self evaluation activity to ensure that it complies with the requirements of the Early Years Framework. You have been asked to prepare the following evidence for your manager: * an explanation of the legal status and principles of the relevant Early Years Framework and
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on topic‚ be healthy- its important to set in context of every child matters as a whole‚ setting up services for children and families. Childrens Act 2004‚ legislation which puts the obligation to provide partnership‚ sure start children centres. Schools need to take 5 outcomes into account. Agencies have to address these issues‚ but doesn’t have a priority like it did with labour government. Government focus more on education‚ rather than integration of services. ECM is still the underpinning framework
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Unit 5 Assignment E1 When working which children it is important to have good professional relationships. This may be with your colleagues‚ other professionals‚ parents and the children themselves. It is our responsibility as practitioners to insure that the best care is provided for each and every child which means we must treats them all as individuals and as equally as possible. We also must create a friendly‚ welcoming environment for the children in our care which will come from having a
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experience. The main findings were • Pre-school experience‚ compared to none‚ enhances children’s development. • The duration of attendance is important with an earlier start being related to better intellectual development and improved independence‚ concentration and sociability. • Full time attendance led to no better gains for children than part-time provision. • Disadvantaged children in particular can benefit significantly from good quality pre-school experiences‚ especially if they attend
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attention to enable them to form close bonds with their carers. The main benefits for children are: • They are cared for in small groups and therefore all children will get a lot of personal attention. • The carer never changes like for example in a Nursery setting where the staff may change on a regular basis. In a home based setting the carer is always the same allowing close bonds to form. • The children are cared for in a familiar homelike environment. • Children are likely to be in mixed age groups
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