Nvq Childcare Diploma Cu1535

Cu1535- Promote squirtrens welf atomic number 18 and well-being in the early years. 1. 1- Welfargon makements Within your setting you should safeguard and promote Childrens welfargon, we must(prenominal)iness take necessary steps to en certain this. We must promote good health of all children within our c atomic number 18 and take steps to baffle the dispersed of infection from others within our c ar and take bewitch action when they be ill. We must ensure that thither are capable people and staffing levels are appropriate to ensure preventative to all children.The premises, environs and equipment must be suitable to cater for the children, these include outdoor and indoor spaces, furniture, equipment and toys and they must be safe and suitable for the children in your care, age/stage appropriate. Your safeguarding/admissions/settling in policies should be kept up to date. It is master(prenominal) for all staff to read all policies and procedures. As a practitioner you s hould be aware of nutrition inevitably and plan hale meals/snacks for children and on some occasions give advice to parents.You should be aware of portion sizes, this is principal(prenominal) beca commit children sack up still become over fish on healthy viandss if they are given too untold. Every setting should lead routines they should reflect the varying enquires of all children within your group especially in terms of sleep and rest. All routines should al small time for outdoor play for all ages. Routines in any case need to be flexible enough to allow the children to finish their task.Under the EYFS we as practitioners observe children during physical play this is to none the skills that they are showing and what could be emerging, this gives us important information on how we fire support the child such as providing new activities, toys or simply encourage the child. Within the EYFS it is important to endure almost with parents, we tidy sum find out their chil ds postulate, you can as well admit support and advice on topics, sleep, toilet training and nutrition. EYFS Statutory requirements, Safeguarding and promoting childrens welfare. Principles in to recital card 1. health and Well-being. 1. 2- To report something in my setting it is our obligation to go straight to our manager of the nursery and report it to her. If our manager isnt in we would go to our deputy manager. If you any very unusual case that both of these people werent in we would go to the welfare officer who also sponsors with the campaign of the nursery. 2. 2i) When receiving a child into the setting you must defy sure you bring forth undergone risk assessments on the building, toys, equipment etc. You must speak to parents to get parental management so you are aware of risks with the child e. . allergies. Make sure you have all parent and carers emergency contact numbers. Parents must fill in the forms attaching pictures of the briny carers so staff is aware. They must also fill in emergency medicine application forms in case the child falls in in the daylight. ii) over again risk assessments need to be done if the child is attending an outing with the nursery to somewhere e. g. the park. You must be told if someone different is pick out the child up and if you dont get told from their main carer you cannot let the child go.If the main carer wants someone else to pick the child up then they must sign a form to say whose picking the child up, the password the number and the name. iii) Main thing when visiting offsite places is risk assessments. You must also concur sure you have parent consent of the main carer. Make sure you take each childs emergency contact numbers and also one member of staff to carry along their mobile phones in case of emergencies. You must take weather related items for all children and the first helper box. The staff ratio must be right according to how many children and their ages. 2. i 2. 5msquared ii- Rat ios- 1 adult to 3 children for under 2 year olds 1 adult to 4 children aged 2-3 years 1 adult for 8 children ages 4 and over. 3. 1- Meeting childrens basic needs for health and well-being through the resources equipment a setting has eg. furniture, cutlery, sinks, staff, advice, doors to get outside etc. Aspects for basic needs .. Food and diet Water Natural light Rest and sleep Warmth raw air Exercise, physical activity, stimulation Hygiene safe environment for hand dampening, table cleaning, toilet areas, awareness of cross infection and contamination ..Security safe environment risk assessed/monitored, familiar to support confidence Love, affection, continuity, stability Professional knowledge training External professionals GPs, health visitor, dentist etc. 3. 2- The roles of key health professionals are as follows School nurse she leave alone offer advice to parents on the health of their child and she allow for carry out hearing specifys, give advice on to parents re garding their childs toilet habits, advice on skin tags and rashes gives information on weather the child needs to visit their GP, this can all be done in the setting.They result monitor the health of the children and also give advice to schools. Audiologist they will measure the childs hearing levels Dentist gives advice on how to asseverate teeth and gums healthy. Dieticians work to give advice on the right nutrients the child needs and from what foods to get them. My setting also has leaflets available for parents to take home on healthy alimentation. GP doctors are usually one of the first people to see the child and can give care to the child and the family and make the right referrals if required.Paediatrician they specialise in work with children with health problems. Speech therapists they help children with speech, language and communication difficulties and give advice to schools and parents. Physiotherapists help children with coordination and their movement resulting from accidental injury, illness or a medical condition. In my setting they will come in and give advice to the teaching assistant who works with a child with a medical problem. Psychologists will work with a child with behavioural or learning difficulty. Optometrist will examine the childs eyesight and prescribe glasses if needed.wellness visitor they work with GPs to give support to children and their families they can give advice to parents regarding the childs health and development. Parents permission must always be given before making referrals. 4. 3- Storing breast milk. in that location are cardinal ways to hold on breast milk you can store it in a fridge or a freezer, the department of Health guidance for the storage of breast milk is as follows You can store breast milk in a fridge at 4 oc or lower for up to 5 days. You can store breast milk in the freezer compartment of a fridge for up to 2 weeks. You can store breast milk in a domestic freezer for up to 6 months at minus 18 oc or lower. If breast milk has been wintery you can defrost it in the fridge and it can be served straight from the fridge rather than being warmed up. This will prevent bacteria. Preparation of verbalism milk. If parents bring in made up bottles of formula milk, they need to be placed in the fridge immediately and used within 24 hours this will ensure that it is kept cold to prevent bacteria and to keep it safe. Before we prepare formula milk clean all the work tops and wash your hands.The bottles, teats and brushes should be thoroughly cleaned and sterilised according to the manufacturers instructions, this will stop the risk of a baby getting sickness and diarrhoea. Best practice means that formula milk should be made up fresh for each feed, if the baby leaves formula milk this should be thrown away, this will prevent a baby bonnie ill. If you are unable to make up formula milk fresh then you can use ready to use liquid formula or by filling a hot thermos with hot w ater (at least 70 oC in temperature)and the formula can be made up as required.To make formula milk boil fresh water in the kettle, let it cool down, but for no more than half an hour, using hot water will kill any harmful bacteria in the powder. Put the boiled water in the bottle first and add the required get of powder, follow manufacturers instructions on the ratio of powder to water. Cool the formula chop-chop to feeding temperature by holding the bottle under cold running water with the cap on. 5. 1- The number of children in the UK who are over heaviness or rotund is on the increase. As early years practitioners we have to provide healthy and nutritionally appropriate food for the children that we care for.This is a requirement of the EYFS. Most settings provide a meal or snack within their provision. The Food Standards Agency recommends that a healthy nutritious diet should take hold foods from the following groups each day starchy foods, fruit and vegetables, protein-ri ch foods and dairy products. A balanced diet should contain foods from these groups, all meals snacks and drinks taken throughout the day must provide children with the sufficient nutrients to make up a balanced diet. When diets become unbalanced children could suffer from health problems or become lacking in a certain vitamin.When planning meals for children, there are several things to take into consideration to ensure that meals contain sufficient nutrients and calories. We need to look at the food labels to see how much salt, calories, fat are in foods and whether the food is rich in nutrients. Children aged 1 to 3 should have no more than 2g of salt a day and children aged 4 to 6 no more than 3g. Calorie measure how much energy is in food. The numerate of calories a child needs changes as they grow and will also depend on how much physical activity they take.It is important that children do not exceed the recommended calorie intake as this whitethorn realize them to become ov erweight. In turn children who do not eat enough calories may become underweight. A child aged between 1-3 years should have around1230 calories a day for a boy and 1165 calories for a girl. Fat is a source of energy for children providing it is in nutritious foods. Some foods are higher in nutrients than others if a food is high in calories it should also be high in nutrients. Foods such as crisps, biscuits and sweets are high in calories but low in nutrients and so an unhealthy option.Childrens stomachs are tiny and so have a limited capacity in can sometimes be hard to make sure they eat enough nutrients before they are full. It is important to ensure children take enough drinks throughout the day to prevent them from becoming dehydrated. Water should always be made available throughout the day and at meal times. Other drinks such as milk, fruit juices and smoothies can also be offered. These drink all contain nutrients and calories so need to be included in a childs daily intake . Fruit juices contain a lot of natural sugar so should be given in moderation to help prevent tooth decay.Fruit drinks, squashes and fizzy drinks also contain a lot of sugar and are high in calories and low in nutrients so should not be offered to children on a daily basis. As childrens stomachs are small they may require snacks between meals so that they can take in sufficient nutrients. Snacks should also be included in the boilersuit daily food intake and should be nutritious. Giving snacks to close to meal times can ruin a childs appetite and we need children to eat well at meal times. Good healthy snacks for children include fruit and vegetable, dried fruit, cheese and crackers, yoghurt, breadsticks and rice cakes.When planning meals for children it may be profitable to look at their food intake for a whole week to ensure that they are eating a varied healthy diet and to confer with the childs parents 5. 2- You need to follow carers instructions on their childs food allergie s or intolerances as it could be be move of their religion/ finishing which mean they dont eat certain foods out of respect. My diversity, equality and inclusion policy states that you include, respect and embrace all children and their families from whatever background, religions or beliefs they have.If you dont verification put to a childs intolerances what may happen if you give a diabetic, a coeliac or a child with a nut allergy something that they/their body/ ashes cannot cope with? serious illness or death. 5. 3- Religious or cultural group Dietary requirements Islam Islamic dietary requirements specify that only Halal (lawful) Lamb, hollo and Chicken, fish and shellfish can be consumed. Pork is a forbidden food to the Islamic people, Haram (unlawful). Cheese which has been certified Halal or cheese that does not contain rennet such as vegetarian cheese (rennet is extracted from the mucosa of a calfs stomach, added to some cheeses).Eggs, tea, coffee and cocoa are permitt ed in the Islamic diet. Ramadan is a time of spiritual reflection and worship and is the Islamic month of fasting for in the 9th month of the Islamic calendar and lasts 29/30 days. Muslims adults refrain from eating and drinking in the daylight hours. Judaism Jewish dietary requirements specify that only kosher Lamb, Beef and chicken can be consumed. Kosher is not a style of cooking, it is the way in which the food is prepared or the way the animal is killed, (in accordance with the Jewish law) Fish is to be eaten with the fins and scales.Cheese, milk and yoghurts are never eaten in the aforesaid(prenominal) meal even drinks containing milk are forbidden when eating meat dishes. Eggs are permitted providing they do not have any blood spots. Shellfish is forbidden to the Jewish people. Tea, coffee and cocoa are permitted. The saucepans, crockery and cutlery that have been used to cook non kosher food are then cogitated to be non-kosher utensils and are not to be used for kosher foo ds. Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the Jewish people and is celebrated on the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei.The Jewish adults fast for 25 hours. Sikhism Due to the fact that there are vast grey areas on what Sikhs eat and refrain from eating, in our setting we require scripted confirmation from parents on what their child is/is not allowed to eat The general consensus is that Sikhs are free to choose whether to adopt a vegetarian or meat diet. and then Sikhism dietary requirements vary from one Sikh person to another however it does specify that Halal and Kosher meat is forbidden (Halal and Kosher is meat that is ceremonially slaughtered).Some Sikhs will eat any meat, some will not eat beef. Some Sikhs will eat fish including shell fish where others will not. Again this principle is the same when it comes to eating eggs it all depends on whether they have adopted a vegetarian or meat diet. Sikhs who have been initiated into the order of Khalsa by the Amrit ceremonial ar e forbidden to eat any meat or meat products. (Khalsa by the Amrit is a baptism ceremony for sikhs). Sikhs are permitted to drink milk, tea coffee and cocoa. in that location is no fasting period for Sikhs. RastafarianismDue to the fact that there are vast grey areas on what Rastafarians eat and refrain from eating, in our setting we require written confirmation from parents on what their child is/is not allowed to eat Ital (derived from the English word vital) is the name of the Rastafarian diet. The Ital diet widely varies from Rasta to Rasta and there are few planetary rules to Ital diet. They do not eat pork as they consider the pig a scavenger some also refrain from eating shellfish for the same reason. Some Rastas follow a strict vegan diet, some Rastas are strict vegetarians and some will consume beef, chicken, lamb, fish, eggs and cheese.However all Rastafarians believe that food should be natural, pure and from this earth, therefore they will avoid food that contains addi tives or food that is chemically modified. Depending on how a Rastafarian follows the Ital diet (strict or relaxed) they are allowed to drink tea, coffee and cocoa, however many avoid caffeinated beverages. There is no fasting period for the Rastafarians. 5. 4- Giving children healthy food is just a part of encouraging children to eat healthily, there are other issues to be considered. We need to be aware of how much food a child needs over the course of a day.Too much food can cause a child to gain weight and too little food could cause a child to be undernourished. Portion control is important to ensure a child is having the correct amount of food. Showing parents a sample of a days food and working out the calorie content is a good way of seeing how much food children need rather than grave them how many calories they need. Parents are advised early on by professionals if their childrens weight is becoming an issue. There are lots of helpful leaflets and websites that offer pare nts help to understand what a healthy weight for their childs height is.It is important that young children are not made aware of any problems with their weight as this may lead to them having problems with food at a later date. Ideally meal times should be an enjoyable occasion which can be used to talk and catch up on the days events. For some families meal times can become a battleground where parents are continuously attempting to get their children to eat a good range of food. As a result of this children can sometimes develop food phobias. We need to bear out for children who are becoming distressed by food or worried about what they eat.It is important to stay relaxed during meal times. To help keep the gloriole relaxed families could experiment to present food in a different way or involve the children in the preparation. Children may be more likely to try new foods if they have helped to prepare the meal. 6. 2- Medicines are stored in our medicine cupboard in the kitchen . If a child brings in medicine we will store it depending on the guidelines on the bottle i. e. in the fridge. Depending on what the medicine is we normally administer liquid medicines to children on a regular basis.When administering medicine we always make sure we have a witness on hand, they check the name of the child on the medicine packaging and the amount you should be giving, you measure out the amount and then give to the child. We record all this on a form which will then be passed to the main carer at the end of the day to check and sign. 6. 3- The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is an Act of the Parliament that as of 2008 defines the, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare within the United Kingdom.It outlines the responsibility of all to consider and act concerning their own safety and that of others. Not acting in a situation that warrants something done to prevent a possible injury or to remove the threat of a health and safety issue is considered negligent if the action were reasonably practicable. Staff are expected to keep areas tidy and clutter free to help avoid dangerous situations. The Act defines general duties on employers, employees, contractors, and persons in general.The creation of the Health and Safety Commission and Health and Safety Executive which have now joined together gave extensive enforcement powers, ultimately backed by criminal sanctions extending to unlimited fines and imprisonment for up to two years. Under section 7 all employees have a duty while at work to Take reasonable care for the health and safety of himself and of other persons who may be affected by his acts or omissions at work and Co-operate with employers or other persons so far as is necessary to modify them to perform their duties or requirements under the Act.The Manual Handling Regulations 1992 make it a legal requirement for schools to carry out Risk Assessments. If lifting or carrying pupils, equipment training shou ld be given. Only lift if necessary and use any appropriate equipment provided. Again training for this should be provided. Share the load if necessary. Bend knees and keep back straight. Schools should have a manual lifting policy. As with the Health and Safety at work act, adults have a responsibility to care for themselves. -portion control -tackling under and overweight children -food phobiasGiving children healthy food is just a part of encouraging children to eat healthily, there are other issues to be considered. We need to be aware of how much food a child needs over the course of a day. Too much food can cause a child to gain weight and too little food could cause a child to be undernourished. Portion control is important to ensure a child is having the correct amount of food. Showing parents a sample of a days food and working out the calorie content is a good way of seeing how much food children need rather than telling them how many calories they need.Parents are advised early on by professionals if their childrens weight is becoming an issue. There are lots of helpful leaflets and websites that offer parents help to understand what a healthy weight for their childs height is. It is important that young children are not made aware of any problems with their weight as this may lead to them having problems with food at a later date. Ideally meal times should be an enjoyable occasion which can be used to talk and catch up on the days events.For some families meal times can become a battleground where parents are continuously attempting to get their children to eat a good range of food. As a result of this children can sometimes develop food phobias. We need to watch out for children who are becoming distressed by food or worried about what they eat. It is important to stay relaxed during meal times. To help keep the atmosphere relaxed families could try to present food in a different way or involve the children in the preparation. Children may be more likely to try new foods if they have helped to prepare the meal.