Evaluate partnership working in relation to: meeting children’s additional needs, safeguarding children, children’s transitions

Qualification: Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Educator
Unit: Unit 2.5: Work in partnership
Learning outcome: 2 Understand how to work in partnership
Assessment criteria: 2.2 Evaluate partnership working in relation to: meeting children’s additional needs, safeguarding children, children’s transitions

• Partnership working in relation to meeting children’s additional needs:
  • Additional needs refers to children that require extra help and support due to disability or learning difficulties
  • Partnership working may be with professioanls such as speech and language therapists, physiotherapists or SENCOs (Special Educational Needs Coordinators)
  • They will provide advice about how to support a child’s development and adaptations that could be made to the setting to meet their needs
• Partnership working in relation to meeting safeguarding children:
  • Partnership working may be with social workers or the police
  • A multi-disciplinary approach is utilised to decide how a child should be best protected
  • Policies and procedures should be in place in relation to how concerns are reported and how information is shared between agencies
• Partnership working in relation to meeting children’s transitions:
  • Transitions refer to a child moving from one setting to another – this could be another early years setting or a school
  • Information should be shared about a child’s needs, progress and interests so that they experience continuity between settings