Being a homebased childcarer involves having many role and responsibilities such as planning a variety of play based activities/experiences that stimulate and support children’s learning and development at an appropriate level to meet their individual needs or listening to, encouraging, enabling, engaging and motivating children to learn. You also need to be able to implementing policies and procedures in line with Ofsted and good practice guidance. Health and Safety This is one key responsibility as a home based childcarer, as you need to ensure a safe environment for children by creating risk assessments for each area that is used by children and for any other situation or activity that could pose a potential hazard to children. It is also important to ensure equipment is safe, well maintained and age appropriate. These can all be met by following all safety procedures (including the Safeguarding Children Policy). Safeguarding is one of the most important responsibilities you hold as a home based childcarer. One features of the Safeguarding and Welfare requirements is to alert to any …show more content…
Role Modeling Bandura’s Social Learning Theory (1977) posits that people learn from one another, via observation, imitation, and modeling. Banudura says “Most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others, one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.” This is an important role as a childcarer because it is vital that you behave appropriately at all times as children learn from your behaviours and at the same time you must encourage children to learn certain behaviours through role modeling, such as eating. Equality
If the local authority establishes that the child is a child in need or at risk of harm, it has a duty under section 47 of the Children Act (1989) to make a care plan or child protection plan to provide support which involves adequate supervision and checks to ensure that the child is no longer at risk. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) promotes empowerment for children as they can exercise their right to express their views and be heard and their best interest would be at the centre of the intervention and social workers need to ensure that decisions made are not affected by the influence from family or professionals they work with (Lee & Hudson,
There are many policies and procedures within own uk home nation affecting safeguarding of children and young people. All practitioners working to safeguard children and young people must understand fully their responsibilities an duties set out in government legislation,regulations and guidance. WORKING TOGETEHR TO SAFEGUARD CHILDREN: A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children(2010) provides statutory practice guidance on how organisations and practitioners should work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and youngpeople in accordance with the childrens act 1989 and the Children Act 2004.This guidance was most recently updated in 2006.This latest revision follows the publication of Lord Laming's
All physical contact with the children should ideally be avoided but in some situations this is not avoidable. E.g young children sometimes need a hug if they have hurt themselves, and at times the children will make physical contact an adult without warning. In these situations the adult should be aware of where they are and who is nearby. The adult should aim to never be left alone with a child (although in some situations this may be unavoidable such as personal care) and if they are the adult must go to lengths to protect themselves, such as leaving the doors open, telling other member of staff where and why they are going to be alone with a child. Ensuring they are observed from another adult if possible, even if at a distance. Any physical contact with a child should always be as a response to the child initiating it.
‘... Persons carrying out this role will be primarily responsible to parents and children to ensure that children’s needs are assessed, and that these assessed needs are met by the responsible agencies’.
The legislation regarding safeguarding and chid protection ensures that all the children are safe, secure and protected from any kind of potential harm which may affect their health or development.
Both national and local guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding affect day-to-day work with children and young people in many ways. They uphold a standard of what is expected and how best to protect children and young people under the age of 18 years. Safeguarding is more than protecting children and young people from direct abuse or neglect. The wider responsibility is that the welfare of the child as a whole is protected.
Young children always see their parents and teachers as role models. The way the parents and childcare workers act and react is how children will learn to do. Hence, whatever their role models say and do is reflected in how they will think about the world in future. As the greatest imitators are children, being a good role model is important in proper child development. Secondly, a childcare worker should always be a good listener to help in proper development of the children. Children should be always encouraged to talk whenever they come with some questions. However, what might sound silly to an adult, to a child is actually a very sincere question which needs to be correctly answered. If you develop open lines of communication with a child at an early age, then as they grow older, chances are these good habit will continue to grow. Giving the child the importance they deserve is another element of child development. Further, a childcare worker should enjoying nature together with children. Hence, teaching children to respect others as well as nature will make them treat the world as their own. This starts with teaching them something as simple as the proper place to throw away their trash instead of on the ground. Never the less, children need discipline in their lives. Hence, rules which need to be strict are sometimes needed to be enforced if we expect
My duties and responsibilities include of doing tasks that have been agreed by the service user and the homecare manager after assessing the service user’s needs. I assist in meeting the care support and daily living needs of the service user and also provide care and any additional support that is needed. Some of my duties consist of assisting in getting up in the morning including washing/bathing, dressing, maintaining personal appearance , assisting with undressing and getting to bed in the evening, assisting with the preparation of meals, drinks and snacks when necessary, providing assistance with toileting and changing clothes and/or bedding where necessary, maintaining commodes and washing clothes and bed linen when necessary, providing
ii. A clear framework for local safeguarding boards for monitoring local services effectiveness. iii. Guidance aims to help professionals understand what they need to do and what they can expect of one another in order to safeguard/keep children
Having a safe and healthy childcare setting is one of the most important duties in a daycare. Educators practising good healthy procedures is a good way for children to learn about healthy choices as educators are, good role models.
If a child is looked after or in care, their opportunities in general may be restricted. This in turn leads to their development being affected in many different ways.
The first requirement for a good program for young children and any other children are the safety provided for them. Children should feel safe in their surroundings in the program that they will enter. Parents should always ask and know the safety precautions each program serves. Knowing the precaution the program does to visitors, drop off and pick ups, and around the whole facility is important. A good program should have a policy for visitors. It is also important to know that the program has a good policy for children’s drop off and pick up. To assure a secure facility to the safety of the children a program should not only be safe for them but for the whole environment.
Introduction I have chosen to do my case-study at a childcare center in Framingham. This center is owned by Staples Headquarters and run by childcare company Bright Horizons. They currently have 196 children enrolled which includes the following programs of Infants, Toddlers, Preschool, Pre-kindergarten and Kindergarten.
Part A: Role and Responsibilities of a Director Childcare Directors take on many roles and responsibilities beyond those of homeroom educators. While these tasks may be shared with the other educators, the administrator must ensure they are completed to the standards of the centre and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. The responsibilities of the Director take place both within the centre as well as outside the centre. Internally, the Director supervises staff and oversees the Centre’s Human Relations, manages financial matters, develops programming, and ensures regulations are being complied with.
Trust is an important foundation in any relationship but even more so when dealing with cultural differences. I think that home health aide programs are great, but unfortunately aren't an accessible option for many people. It breaks my heart when people think that caring for their elderly relatives is a burden because like you I grew up believing that I should be the one taking care of my own. On the other hand I've known elderly people who continue to take care of themselves because they don't want to be a burden on their family, so they'll be the ones to resist their family's help or never ask for help in the first place. In situations where someone doesn't want another's help would it be best to respect their wishes or intervene if their