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Good Practice in Childcare
Session 1: The role of good practice in early years care and education
  • Introduction
  • Principles and Values
  • Principles of good practice in early years care and education
  • Development of Good Practice
  • Role of the early years worker in promoting good practice
  • Checklist of good practice issued
  • Limitations on good practice
Session 2-5: Child Growth and Development
  • Cognitive Development (Piaget, Vygotsky, Sternberg, etc)
  • Personality Development
  • The Development of Social Relationships
Session 6- First Aid

Session 7- Running a Child Care Facility

Session 8- Children’s Welfare, Children’s Rights

  • Introduction 
  • UN Convention on the rights of the child
  • Development of rights for children
  • Children Act 1989
  • Rights of young children
  • Promoting children’s rights and welfare
  • Warmth and Responsiveness
  • Methods of Control
  • Communicating with and listening to children
  • Conclusions
Session 9- Equal Opportunities and Anti- Discriminatory Practice
  • Introduction
  • The Bases Of Discrimination
  • Discrimination and Disability
  • Discrimination and Racism
  • Discrimination and Gender
  • Discrimination and Children
  • The impact of discrimination
  • Legislative Framework for Anti- Discriminatory practice
Session 10: Promoting Equality and Diversity 
  • Introduction
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Dealing with Racism
  • Gender Issues in Early years Settings
  • Anti- discriminatory Practice And Disability in early years settings
  • Creating a Safe and Supportive Environment for all children
Session 11: Quality in Early Years Learning and Development
  • Introduction
  • Exploring Quality in Childcare and Education
  • Developments in Quality Care and Education to children
  • Working to Achieve Quality in Early Years Care and Education
Session 12: Keeping Children Safe
  • Introduction
  • Creating a Safe Environment
  • Planning for Safety
  • Safety Equipment
  • Safety Routines
  • Taking Children Out
  • Teaching Children to be Safe
  • Accidents and Emergencies
  • Illness and Infection
  • Records
  • Legal Issues in Child Safety
Session 13:
  • Physical Abuse
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Neglect
  • Emotional abuse
  • Dynamics of Child abuse
  • Reporting abuse
Session 14: Working with Parents and other Professionals 
  • Introduction
  • Working with Parents
  • The role of Parents
  • Parenting Skills and Dispositions
  • Partnership with Parents
  • Working with Other Professionals
Session 15: Confidentiality
  • Introduction
  • The Concept of Confidentiality
  • Confidentiality in Childcare
  • Breaking Confidences
  • Deciding to break Confidences- when and why?
  • Record- Keeping ad Storage of Information
Session 16: The Reflective Practitioner
  • Defining Reflective Practice
  • Theory and Practice
  • The individual Practitioner
  • Getting Support to Become a Reflective Practitioner
Session 17: Test

The participant is expected to attend 16 training sessions.
Assignments form part of the course, which will finish off with a final examination.

Starting date: Starting Soon
Time: 9.30 hrs to 11.30 hrs or 17.30 hrs to 19.30 hrs
Duration: 16 session of two hours duration

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