Help Needed with barriers to partnership

[bucketblake]

hi everyone. Ive passed my partnership assignment but I have one area left which I didn't cover, and I just cant seem to think straight.

I need to answer 'give some specific examples of when barriers to partnership cannot be overcome and why'

Can anyone please help me.

[Ruthierhyme]

Hi, if you have this eye level 3 handbook page 152 contains a table of barriers that are a challenge to overcome.

They include time, priorities, knowledge, approach, communications, relationships respect and trust, sharing information.

Consider your setting and its relationship with parents. Who are most engaged with the setting's work and who are distant, consider why that distance is there.

Hth

[bucketblake]

Thanks I added all those in my.assignment... the thing my assessors wants is barriers that can't be overcome? I can't think.of any

[Ruthierhyme]

They can be viewed as barriers that can't be overcome. We can always hope that the partnership between a setting and its parents is strong enough to overcome anything but in reality if any one of those is felt strongly enough it will be a challenge to breakdown.

Time - do any of your parents have work commitments that mean they're unable to attend meetings, drop or pick up their child, or maybe are tied to such a tight deadline that they're in a rush in the morning or evening and can't stay to talk about how their child's day went/how things are going at home?

Priorities - have you encountered times when parents have different priorities than the setting? eg. maybe sends in food and drink they know their child likes but the setting feels is less healthy? prefers to let their child stay up until they fall asleep meaning the child attends the setting tired? Is worried about their child's health and safety to the extent they ask the setting to keep their child inside if it's raining or damp outside?