Unit 2.5: Work in partnership

This unit is part of the Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Educator and has the following learning outcomes and assessment criteria:

1. Understand the principles of partnership working in relation to current frameworks when working with children
   1. Identify reasons for working in partnership
   2. Describe partnership working in relation to current frameworks
   3. Summarise policy and procedural requirements in relation to partnership working
2. Understand how to work in partnership
   1. Explain the roles of others involved in partnership working when supporting children
   2. Evaluate partnership working in relation to: meeting children’s additional needs, safeguarding children, children’s transitions
   3. Identify different family structures
   4. Analyse benefits of working in partnership with different parents/carers
   5. Identify when parents/carers need support
   6. Give examples of support which may be offered to parents/carers
3. Understand challenges to partnership working
   1. Identify barriers to partnership working
   2. Explain strategies to overcome barriers when working in partnership
   3. Evaluate the complexity of partnership working
4. Understand recording, storing and sharing information in relation to partnership working
   1. Identify records to be completed in relation to partnership working
   2. Explain reasons for accurate and coherent record keeping
   3. Evaluate the reasons for confidentiality when maintaining records
   4. Analyse the potential tension between maintaining confidentiality and the need to disclose information: when poor practice is identified, where a child is at risk, when it is suspected that a crime has been/may be committed
5. Be able to work with parents/carers in a way which encourages them to take an active role in their child’s play, learning and development
   1. Work with parents/carers in a way which encourages them to take an active role in their child’s play, learning and development
6. Be able to complete records
   1. Complete records that are accurate, legible, concise and meet organisational and legal requirements