CYPOP 17 5.3 and a thank you! Analyse how and why practitioners should act as agents and facilitators of change

[KristyC]

First of all thank you to everyone who contributes to this forum. You guys have got my head in gear so many times!
I have trudged through CYPOP 17 and found it quite challenging I'm now I'm stuck on the last question 5.3

Analyse how and why practitioners should act as agents and facilitators of change in own work setting.

I would really appreciate any help as my tutor is off sick and I am running out of time to complete the course.
Thanks!

[Ruthierhyme]

Hi, would it help to ask yourself what you want for the children in your care, the families that those children are part of and the community where you all live/visit?

Maybe examine a situation where, if agents that facilitate change didn't exist what would change? Where the factors below are involved this could mean that any destructive, negative cycles will continue to impact on every child and new generation.

Through your parent partnerships, multi-agency working, colleagues you see or communicate with day to day and the promotion of rights, you faciliatate change via role modelling, having the ability to offer support, guidance, advice wherever needed or appropriate and further your knowledge through training & professional development.

Why advocate from USA's PennState

Professional confidence

If you use the factors from CYPOP17 1.1

• Poverty
• Social and community pressures
• Health status
• Abuse and neglect
• Violent and/or offending family or personal backgrounds
• Race, gender, sexual orientation
• Asylum seeking or victims of trafficking

You can maybe see how these might apply to your community and setting and how you work at early intervention that supports everyone?

Daily practice
CAF
Working with others - Multi-agency
Implementing an open door policy
Reporting procedures for safeguarding, protection, whistleblowing, incidents, events
Provision for play
Achieving positive outcomes of ECM
Raising awareness of eg. anti-discrimination, equal opportunity, the value of diversity, cultures, children's and human rights.
Examine what inequality is, how damaging it can be and what both sides of that can mean to achieveing common goals eg. satisfaction with life

Research to support this analysis could be ..

• What your setting offers and how they offer it
• The setting's ethos, attitude, culture
• What the needs of your parent's and children are
• What you want to provide through your work as a practitioner of early years care, learning and development
• Narrowing the gap guidance 2008 - key messages
• Narrowing the gap in outcomes - 0 to 5 early years - NFER
• MP Frank Field's 2010 report - review on poverty and life chances
• Knowledge of rights - children's and human rights
• Equality act 2010
• Benefits and opportunities within play - best play
• ECM every child matters and the aim of a home nation's early years framewok: England's EYFS 2008 quote: The overarching aim of the EYFS is to help young children achieve the five Every Child Matters
  outcomes of staying safe, being healthy, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution, and achieving economic well-being
• Linking ECM positive outcomes with UNCRC articles

Hth xx

[KristyC]

Thank you so much I really appreciate your help.
I managed to answer it but you have given me some additional things to add.
I haven't been told about referencing so that was very valuable.
K x