Be able to work alongside parents/carers, colleagues and other professionals
Find and read your setting’s policies and procedures for working with parents and external professionals.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'Working in partnership with parents: Good practice guide’ from the London Borough of Havering
- 'Staff morale’ from the Teach Early Years website
- Find your job description and read what it says about working in a team within your setting with colleagues, parents/carers, and other professionals.
- 'Childcare providers working in partnership with Multi Agencies’ from Early Years Careers
- Find and read your setting’s policies and procedures for working with parents and external professionals.
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read pages 6-11 in ‘Practice Principle 2: Partnerships with professionals’ which is part of the Australian state of Victoria’s Early Years Learning and Development Framework. The section looks at why partnerships with professionals are important in the early years.
- Click to read these ‘Every day’s a learning day’ documents, produced by Education Scotland, which offer ideas of activities that you can share with parents and carers to help them engage with their child’s learning:
- Birth to 3 years
- 3 to 6 years
- This section of the Scottish National Improvement Hub has several resources for engaging and supporting children and their families to become involved in their children’s learning.
- The Council for Disabled Children and 4 Children have produced a document ‘Working with other professionals and other sources of support and information’ which looks at working together with external professionals.
- Think And Challenge
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