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3.4 Offer effective support to colleagues Do any of the setting's policies & procedures mention mediation, meetings that would be used to discuss grievances, complaints, whistleblowing, concerns? If not maybe think what would happen if colleagues experienced conflict/disagreement beween themselves, with parents, at organisational practices. What happens in reality would form the beginnings of a new setting policy/procedure that you could suggest is introduced

5.3 Describe the types of situations
Situations where colleagues may need support
  • Witnessing, dealing and managing children's behaviour/means of communication in all contexts.
  • Witnessing, dealing and managing communications with parents and carers.
  • Summoning the confidence to challenge discrimination appropriately.
  • Having the self-confidence to know concerns and suggestions will be taken seriously by colleagues, more senior management and where this might of proven unsatisfactory where else it's possible to report concerns.
http://www.silkysteps.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10459
http://www.silkysteps.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17022
http://www.silkysteps.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10023
This is a recent thread I missed. Reading through today examples how websites can also be involved with conflict between colleagues: http://www.silkysteps.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17731

6.3 Summarise the types of conflict
http://www.silkysteps.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17643

1.3 Respect the wishes of parents.
Parents are recognised as a child's primary and most important care giver. They are the ones who have legal responsibility for their child's overall welfare and well-being. Times of conflict can arise where parent's wishes challenge a setting's continuous provision and the policies and procedures that are in place. eg:

Times of opening
Times of collection
Methods of payment
Types of resources that children access and levels of risk they are exposed to and engage in.
Steryotypical thinking
Prejudice and bias
Meeting children's individual needs eg. toileting and the setting's changing facillities.

What a setting's policies and procedures state is practice that safeguards all that are involved.

This can set up limitations. Those limitations are what can create barriers and conflict.

If staff are contracted to begin work at 7.30 for an 8am open time a parent's wish to drop their child/ren off at 7.45am would conflict.
A child has the right to play, attend and assemble peacefully where they choose but the agreed opening times would not currently enable that to happen.

3.3 Share own actions and choices as a play worker
This is about how you share what you do so that everyone around you understands your reasons for doing it. This is an effective way to gain respect and trust for what you're doing or have those ideas/reasonings challenged. As a professional with a duty of care towards the children that are with you the risks need to be understood by all so that children gain quality experiences from them.

Posters, leaflets, books, meetings, knowledge sharing through your general day to day chats, newletters, emails, txts.

Best play - on playengland.org.uk
Making sense of play

3.6 Explain how playwork organisations seek to balance the health, safety and security of the play environment with children and young people’s need for stimulation, risk and challenge
How does your setting look to balance these issues?
The need for children to experience levels of risk and challenges?
The need to protect children from harm
The need, where appropriate to ensure children are secure in the environment eg. escape, intruders

2.5 Explain how to work with children and young people in the creation of play spaces
Be able to recognise that something is and might not be needed.
Recognise there might be opposition from adults
Be able to provide times to meet/come together and discuss those needs.
Give time to listen, be resectful, always have an open mind and a willingness to add things, change, move and remove things from an exisitng and new environment Excellent reading can be found in the Unit PW34 Work with children and young people to create play spaces and support freely chosen selfdirected play
A guide to creating successful play spaces is information that looks at all potential provision.


4.2 Explain the levels of risk that are acceptable
Managing risk in a play environment from playengland, personal & professional perceptions of unacceptable risk can be contentious. This is from the HSE regarding the managing risk booklet:

The important message is that there must be freedom from unacceptable risk of life-threatening or permanently disabling injury in play

fromhttp://www.freeplaynetwork.org.uk/adventure/manage.htm

Matches
Fires
cooking
Knives, saws, scissors, hammers, hand drills
Screws, nuts & bolts, nails, rivets
Floorings - soil, sawdust, chippings, padding, mats, grass
Belts, ropes, ties,
chains
Jumping off and climbing up equipment
Suspended and raised equipment that require balancing skills
Long standing water
Pets
Insects
Plants
Target activities

3.6 Evaluate the impact of children and young people’s play on members of the playwork team
How does, what children do, impact on individual team members?
Do you all support children when they are at play?
Do you see, value and understand some of the reasons why they might be doing what they're doing?
Do you gladly plan with them to change things around, add things and monitor activities to make them more challenging, interesting, relaxing.
Do you all feel positive about yourcontributions to the children and their play? How do you think play makes your team members act, respond and reflect?
Do you feel threatened by what children do and say when playing?
Do you feel scared for their safety?
Does any of this make you and your colleagues feel cautious, over protective, defensive, out of control, unable to cope should an injury or emergency occur.

I hope this helps a little, the playwork book is a supportive read if you have access to one - preview on google & on amazon and the search page on silkysteps will link through to existing threads - enter words, phrases, unit codes to search. Other usful sources are Skillactive website and participationworks.

Enjoy the site xx
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