Importance of a Child Centred Approach in the Early Years Setting

* The baby turns its head towards light and stares at bright and shiny objects (1 month old)

2.2 Describe with examples the importance of recognising and responding to concerns about children and young people’s development

The needs, rights and views of the child are at the centre of all practice

It is important to safeguard children and young people because no one deserves to be abused whether it be emotional, physical, sexual abuse and no young person deserves to be neglected and we have a duty to protect them from harm.

CYP 3.1 – 3.4 Explain how different types of interventions can promote positive outcomes for children and young people where development is not following the expected pattern.

Effective practice can support children’s well-being and development when looking at a child’s health and physical development. Effective practice means ‘About ensuring that all children get optimum benefit from their experiences in the EYFS. This apparently simple outcome can only be achieved when adults work together to get to know the children s that they can support their play, development and learning.’ (Early years’ matters,2017.) Children’s well-being means the quality of the child and how their life is, and to ensure that they child is happy, comfortable and stable throughout their everyday life. Children all develop at different stages, whether this is through additional needs or family issues or they might have a gap in there learning.

If a child or young person starts to show signs of clumsiness or struggle with their fine motor or gross motor movements then this would cause concern and make you wonder what could be causing this? Their social development may be affected as they may find it hard to interact with other children when playing games in the playground. The child or young person will have problems with fine motor and gross motor skills and therefore may struggle to use a pen/pencil, have hand-eye co-ordination problems, balance and even running. This will also have a knock on affect on them intellectually, because if they are unable to hold a pen/pencil then they will be unable to write. The best way to respond to this concern would yet again inform the child’s teacher and also inform the SENCO, as the child or young person may suffer from dyspraxia, and they will need to be assessed.

centred approach: the wishes and feelings of children must be identified and taken account of; child at the centre of the process by involving the child or young person in meetings, asking for their opinion when discussing matters relating to them; importance of respecting children and young people

|3 – 6 months |Physical development of a 3-6 month old baby will start to develop they may start to have more control over |

Equipment- Dress up clothes, pushchairs, doll’s, hair dryer, brushes, rollers, tills, shopping baskets/trolley’s, play food ect……

The education of children has existed since the beginning of time as parents have taught and molded their children into the young adults they desired them to be. Initial training of children was not in a formal setting, although history would see numerous settings, purposes, and methodological changes. Philosophies of education have also changed through the years as various voices have seemed to grasp the purpose of educating the next generation, thus laying out objectives to reach those goals of teaching children.

It is essential that educators create safe, welcoming environments that promote learning for all students in a classroom and to do this they must acknowledge issues of diversity and difference and know how to approach these issues. There are two key documents that guide educators in their planning and implementation of curriculum; The Australian Curriculum and The Early Years Learning Framework. Using these two documents to create learning programs, educators must enact an inclusive curriculum that empowers all students, regardless of differences. For educators to understand and address issues of diversity and differences such as socio-economic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, language barriers and stereotypes around gender and sexuality, they must look at their own philosophy, values and beliefs around these issues.

Children who seek help right away will be able to live a normal life and score well academically.

Discuss the role of the early years practitioner in planning provision to meet the needs of the child.

Infants and children are at a high risk of caries due to improper oral care and the lack of oral hygiene education of parents. Nearly 60 percent of children under the age of 5 will have tooth decay.In order to help this particular population education is key. Mothers with poor oral health will lead to poor oral health of children. According the National Institute of Health children ages 2 to 11 years of age have an average of1.6 decayed teeth and 3.6 decayed primary surfaces. There has been an active increase of caries in the past ten years in the primary dentition of children ages 2 through 11 years old. Resulting in 42% of children in the US having active decay in their primary teeth. People of ethnic backgrounds and lower