8.20 Observation, Planning and Key Worker Role Policy |
In partnership with parents and carers, Wakefield MDC has a duty of care to maintain the safety, welfare and positive learning experiences of all children who access its Early Years Services, tailored to meet individual needs.
- Neighbourhood Nurseries provide effective systems to ensure that the individual needs of all children are met
- Each child is assigned a key worker. This ensures that the child and parent/carer becomes familiar with the setting and feels confident and safe within it, developing a genuine bond with the key worker who offers a settled and close relationship.
- The key worker is responsible for meeting the needs of each child in their care and for responding sensitively to their feelings, ideas and behaviour, talking to parents to make sure that the child is being cared for as an individual.
- Nursery staff will promote equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice and ensure that every child is included and not disadvantaged because of ethnicity, culture or religion, home language, family background, learning difficulties or disability, gender or ability
- Nursery staff will value linguistic diversity and provide opportunities for children to develop and use their home language in their play and learning.
- Nursery staff will provide a range of meaningful contexts in which children have opportunities to develop English
- Nursery staff will ensure that there is a balance of adult-led and freely-chosen or child-initiated activities delivered through indoor and outdoor play
- Nursery staff will undertake sensitive, observational assessment in order to plan to meet young children's individual needs
Nursery staff will plan and provide experiences which are appropriate to each child's stage of development as they progress towards the early learning goals.
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