Qualification: Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Educator
Unit: Unit 2.1: An introduction to the role of the Early Years practitioner
Learning outcome: 3 Understand working relationships in Early Years
Assessment criteria: 3.1 Explain how a working relationship is different to a personal relationship
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- Working relationships are:
- formal and professional
- bounded by working hours and work settings
- unequal distribution of power – practitioners will know more about the children and their families
- cannot choose who you work with
- bound by legislation, regulation and best practices
- Personal relationships are:
- informal and participants are free to choose if they maintain them
- mutually beneficial with an equal distribution of power
- can be intimate
- unpaid
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