How does recent early years legislation support the development of quality childcare?

Question

Children Act

Answer 1

No

Answer 2

You just need to google every child matters and a whole wealth of information comes up about how the quality of childcare will improve. This is all a result of the Victoria Climbie incident a few years back

Anyone looking after other people's children have to be registed with OFSTED and this means that they are inspected to ensure that the quality of their childcare is up to scratch if it isn't then it is given actions to improve within 6 months or can be closed down.

As a pre-school owner I was inspected about a month ago and I needed to be able to prove to the inspector that the children in my care were safe and developing correctly.  If we believe that a child isn't making progress then we have to ensure that relevant people are brought in to assess the child and help them with any needs and support us in helping them to do this.

It is now statutory that people working with young children share information with other professionals around them.  Where as 10 years ago the health visitor would pop into the pre-school for a quick chat every now and again, nowadays they are regular visitors to the pre-school checking on children with Special Educational needs and asking if there are any other children we have concerns with.  This also is the case for the local SENCO and the English as a second Language support team.

In addition to this Early years is no longer looked upon as a low paid job in which people with no qualifications can move into.  By 2010 Day nurseries and 2015 other childcare settings must have a member of staff who has gained an Early Years Professional Status and this is the equivalent of  a qualified teaching status.  There are many people (including me) currently training for a degree so that I am able to reach this goal and thus improve the quality of their Early Years Setting.  In addition to this all of my staff members are regularly sent out on training days to ensure that they are up to date with any new legislation and they are receiving recent information into their specialised area (child protection, SENCO, EAL, H & S etc etc)

I hope that helps with your question

Answer 3

It doesnt             sorry but thats the truth

Answer 4

do your own homework,try  researching  :  the un convention on the rights of the child, the childrens act 1989, care commision , among other things you may learn a few things.