Hi, unit 027 is the same as CYP 3.4 if using
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The framework of your home nation/where you live, will help guide an answer to the criteria - England and EYFS, Wales & FP, NI & FS or Scotland's pre-birth t 3 & curriculum for excellence.
How does your setting meet the differing needs of its children? Maybe you would, or maybe you have adapted the environment to enable children's participation. Maybe you have ways of informing others about children's and colleagues allergies, intollerances, sensitivites, medical needs. Specific risk to pregnancy could be rubella, chicken pox, sensory impairement may mean different visual and auditory safety warnings need to be in place, consideration towrds specific risks of activities - cooking and heat, dry sand and eyes.
The obligation to know about your duty to care means that common sense is valuable tool, parent/carer partnerships and carrying out risk assessments enables you to keep children safe, and lines of responsibility and accountability ensure you know who's there to share information with.
Are ratios of adults to children maintained?
Do you have policies and procedures that assist you working safely?
The environment is a way for children to feel a sense of well-being, belonging and reach the documented learning and development outcomes as per your framwork - England has ELGs, development matters, and ECM's positive outcomes to help guide & plan a safe, healthy and progressive environment.
For more information page 214 of the
collins handbook is useful reading.
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