Describe the legal responsibility on settings to work in partnership with parents?

Question

Describe the legal responsibility on settings to work in partnership with parents?

Answer 1

In England:

Children's Act---these state the parental rights eg: to name there child, choose their education, make decisions etc so the setting needs to make sure the parents are happy with the settings policies before enrolling them.

Children's Rights (united nations committee on rights of the child)-child has the right to have parents involved and BOTH parents respected (esp if parents are separated)

OFSTED-National Care Standards that the settings are inspected by

Others that arent actually laws but affect setting are:

-Early Years Foundation Stage

-Every Child Matters

-SEN Code of Practice

Try typing them in on a search engine or look on www.surestart.gov.uk and possibly www.direct.gov.uk

or www.ofsted.gov.uk

hope these help!

Answer 2

The purpose and aims of the Early Years Foundation Stage include creating the framework for partnership working between parents and professionals, and between all the settings the child attends. The statutory framework for the EYFS describes the legal responsibilities and para 1.16 states that "Partnership working underpins sucessful delivery of the EYFS in a number of ways." These are listed as continuity and coherence by sharing information, vital for the identification of children's learning needs and to ensure a quick response to any area of particular difficulty. Parents and families are central to a chil's well being and practitioners should support this important relationship by sharing information and offering support to learning in the home.

Specific legal requirements state the information that needs to be shared between parents and settings and includes: activities, routines, staffing, food and drinks supplied, policies and procedures, complaints procedures, how to contact Ofsted, etc:

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

It is hard to answer this because I do not know what kind of setting you are referring to. Generally, all schools, public or private need to have a well developed parent handbook which spells out attendance, illnesses, behavior etc . including what the school expects from the child and the parents. Private schools need to have payment contracts including allowances for vacations, holidays etc. Parent handbooks should include the responsibility of the school to report child abuse

Many schools have a code of conduct which describes the kind of behavior which is desired and what will happen if a child cannot conform to these expectations. there should be a continuum of responses, so that a child who misbehaves is warned the first time,  sent to timeout the next time, then a parent conference if the behavior does not improve