Supporting Children Through Care and Education

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This assignment shall explore the services for children and the range of settings that provide care and education for children. It will look at the professional practice and the principles and values that underpin working with children including the promotion of their rights.
The statutory sector, voluntary sector and private sector are three different types of sectors that support children and their families. There are many different types of settings that provide care and education for children which link into the different sectors.
The statutory sector services are provided by the government and funded through taxation. The statutory sector services includes health, social care and education. The government is required by law to ensure that all children receive education and to ensure that settings make reasonable adjustments for all kinds of children. Examples of settings in the statutory sector are nursery and primary education. Drove Primary School is a statutory service, it is located in the middle of Swindon and overlooks the magic roundabout and County Ground. The school has been around for over fifty years, and continues to be a focal point for the local community. Drove Primary school cater for boys and girls between the ages of three and eleven. The aim at Drove Primary School is to provide the children with the best education and to have a safe environment. Their biggest ambition is to give the children who go to the school ‘’the roots to grow and the wings to fly’’. Drove Primary School offer activities and clubs for the children in the morning and afternoon which support the parents and carers of the children who have to go to work.
Services in the voluntary sector are not for profit neither funded by the governmen...

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... treated fairly and that they can join in activities and be involved . It bulds upon trust with the practitioner and allows the child to open up to the practitioner if they are worried about anything.

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