Hi, would it help to ask yourself what you want for the children in your care, the families that those children are part of and the community where you all live/visit?
Maybe examine a situation where, if agents that facilitate change didn't exist what would change? Where the factors below are involved this could mean that any destructive, negative cycles will continue to impact on every child and new generation.
Through your parent partnerships, multi-agency working, colleagues you see or communicate with day to day and the promotion of rights, you faciliatate change via role modelling, having the ability to offer support, guidance, advice wherever needed or appropriate and further your knowledge through training & professional development.
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Professional confidence
If you use the factors from CYPOP17 1.1
• Poverty
• Social and community pressures
• Health status
• Abuse and neglect
• Violent and/or offending family or personal backgrounds
• Race, gender, sexual orientation
• Asylum seeking or victims of trafficking
You can maybe see how these might apply to your community and setting and how you work at early intervention that supports everyone?
Daily practice
CAF
Working with others - Multi-agency
Implementing an open door policy
Reporting procedures for safeguarding, protection, whistleblowing, incidents, events
Provision for play
Achieving positive outcomes of ECM
Raising awareness of eg. anti-discrimination, equal opportunity, the value of diversity, cultures,
children's and
human rights.
Examine what inequality is, how damaging it can be and what both sides of that can mean to achieveing common goals eg. satisfaction with life
Research to support this analysis could be ..
Hth xx