Hi, you could approach this by stepping back a little and looking at it as a prospectus for your service, a way that welcomes new parents/carers & children to your setting or as a building block from any operational plan you might have. It can also be useful to think about what you'd like to recieve in a booklet or a pack if you ever found yourself looking for care for your own child. Could you possibly ask a local school or other providers for a copy of their prospectus to see the type of information they include?
I hope this helps ..
Mission: this is all about what you want you and your service to provide? look at negative aspects to show you want positive ones: eg. will your service provide zero learning opportunities for all the children you want to provide care for, detrimental health guidance, bullying as the norm ..
Value: consider what you think is worth more/valued to you when you go about offering a service to children, parents and carers? would you support and encourage children fighting as a means of communication and achieving success, or them finding ways to negotiate and compromise. Do you dislike being disturbed, prefering to have children grouped and sat in a room quietly until parent/carers arrive to collect them or engaged in physical whole body play, quiet & focussed/ potentially undemanding activites - reading, puzzles, construction and exploring fine motor skills, creative activity, enjoying social, emotional and thoughtful interactions with everyone.
Maybe take a little time to read other statements of service provision to see how yours reflects -
childminder mission statement and
values and principles thread - as you read through these consider what you think you provide and why you feel that.
For legislation you could mention how the
children's act of 2004 helps practitioners with the introduction of ECM's 5 positive outcomes and what they are. How you are required to know, put in place & deliver eyfs -
if you're in England, its areas of learning and safeguaring information. You could mention the UN convention on the rights of the child, maybe by including how you value play, freedom of expression and the right to rest. Health and safety at work act 1974 -
law helps to ensure that risk assessments keep your setting's environment and means of transport if you have a car under review and monitored for dangers whilst assisting you to create challenging activities that the children have shown they'd be interested in. If self employed, and reading this act, it can be good to view yourself as both employer & employee
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You could also mention how you work in partnership with local authority figures/departments, networks, groups, companies to maintain your training and development in first aid, child protection, food hygiene and nutritional awareness ..
Look at your setting, how it's laid out, where it is - by a busy road, a quiet lane, next to a park, has a park! note the spaces where children play - rooms, inside & out, the resources you have to offer and the enjoyment you think children and parents will gain from atttending your setting.
If you go through the policies and procedures that cover what you do, you'll find the reasons why you do it there also and then maybe see how you can include that in the pack.
CYPOP 5 has its own handbook for childminders that you may find supports you through this and is a resource you'll be able to refer in the future -
home based childcare
Best wishes xx
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