Quality Care in the child care centres

PROFESSOR MARIA ROBERTS COURSE: ECEP- 236

PRESENTED BY

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Nafisa SultanaDipti Roy

Rehana BegumDilara Begum

Shabnom MustariFatema ShamsDate: 15/04/2014

Agenda

Low child-adult ratio Qualified and well trained ECE Small group sizes Appropriate curriculum Inclusive environment Parental involvement Sufficient funds Health and safety procedures

Stakeholders

Toronto Early Learning and Child Care Services (TELCCS)(formerly known as municipal childcare services)

YMCA Greater Toronto

Ideal Child Services Group

Charity Village

Barnardos’ National children’s Resource Center

Low child-adult ratio

According to Day Nursery Act (DNA) of Ontario the staff–child ratio must be maintained in all child-care settings. The ratio is shown in the next slide.

Low child-adult ratio

Number of Staff Required for a Day Nursery

Source: Child Development Resource Connection Peel

Age of children in Group Ratio of Employees to Children

Maximum number of Children

1. under 18 months of age 3to 10 10 2. 18 months of age and over

up to and including 30 months of age

1 to 5 15

3. more than 30 months of age up to and including 5 years of age

1 to 8 16

4. over 5 years of age and less than 6 years of age

1 to 12 24

5. 6 years of age up to and including 9 years of age

1 to 15 30

Qualified and well trained ECE

Every Day Nursery must have a supervisor who Holds a diploma in Early childhood education from an Ontario College of

Applied Arts and Technology Has equivalent academic qualification; and At least two years of experience working in a day nursery with children who are

at the same ages and developmental levels as the children in the day nursery where the supervisor is to be employed; and is approved by a Ministry Director.

  Every Day Nursery must employ a trained staff who

Must have a diploma in Early Childhood Education from an Ontario College of Applied Arts and Technology (community college); or

An equivalent academic qualification; or Must be otherwise approved a Director.

 Source: Child Development Resource Connection Peel

Small Group Sizes

Quality child care always provides small group sizes because it allows the following opportunities:

Allow active participation Develop social, emotional, and language skills Build positive relationship between educators and children

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Appropriate Curriculum

Quality child care ensures an appropriate curriculum

Based on children’s interests Age appropriateness Plan for children’s developmental needs

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Inclusive Environments

Welcome all children with & without disabilities

Provides a variety of child friendly healthy foods

The quality space for all children

Demonstration of respect for diversity, equality and

inclusion

www.inclusive-solutions.com

Parental Involvement

If a parent is communicating with their child’s Early Childhood Educator and receiving feedbacks about the child on a regular basis, the child would most likely be on track and do well in the center.

http://www.daycaretrust.org.uk/pages/parents-as-partners-in-childcare.html Visiting your child at day care is one

way to stay involved.

Sufficient funds In the Center

Financial support is important for constructing the basic and professional infrastructure of the centre.

Finances are required for buying toys, books and other stuff for children.

A lot of arrangements are required to be done for health and safety of children in a quality child care center.

A quality child care center has quality facilities of food and these food facilities can be made available only if good money is put into it.

Different equipment are required to run a child care center including washrooms equipped with dealing with non-toilet trained children and other children stuff.

Therefore, financial support is required for building a quality child care center.

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Health and Safety

Health:• Provide nutritional food to

children.• Post healthy eating policies and

menu plan.• Concern about food allergies.• Careful preparation of food &

correct food handling techniques to prevent contamination.

• Baseline health observation to prevent illness.

• Ensure physical activity. Source:Pimento, Barbara , and Deborah Kernested. Healthy Foundations in Early Childhood Settings. Toronto: Nelson Education, 2010.

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Health and Safety

Safety: 

Environment needs to be safe and hazard free.

Cleaning and disinfecting should be an integrated part of ongoing operating practices.

Provide adequate supervision to ensure safety.

Different age groups require different type of safety rules.

Source:Pimento, Barbara , and Deborah Kernested. Healthy Foundations in Early Childhood Settings. Toronto: Nelson Education, 2010.

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Action Plan

Social Media - Face Book

Target audience – Municipal Govt. parents, caregiver, and guardians

Goal – Raise awareness about quality care in the centres

What we did for our advocacy:

Opened face book https://www.facebook.com/pages/Advocacy-for-Quality-Care-in-Childcare-Centre/1395377144072011?ref=hl

Campaigned in a child care centre Distributed brochure

FUTURE ACTION PLAN

Make a Video for You tube Blog Follow up face book Page

Q. Do you think all childcare centres are providing quality care?

Q. Do you have any suggestions for our advocacy plan?

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Settings. Toronto: Nelson Education, 2010.

 

Thank You