Nurturing Healthy Habits in Children

The National Quality Standard (NQS) emphasizes the promotion of health and safety among every child in childcare facilities. The NQS focuses on maintaining hygienic practices to avoid infection risks, providing nutritious food, and ensuring comfortable clothing and temperature control. Additionally, it prioritizes communication of safety issues, supervision, and incident management to ensure children are not exposed to harm or abuse. The NQS also encourages physical activity, autonomy in learning, food preparation, emotional well-being, and acceptable behavior among children. Furthermore, the NQS ensures that equipment is placed in an accessible manner for children to use.

CHCECE003 - PROVIDE CARE FOR
CHILDREN

Formative assessments
Activity 2
Question 4
The national quality standard provides two goals for the Excellence Area. The goals are -- promoting
health and safety of children by minimizing the damage and injury by reducing hazards and pollution
and providing every child with quality education (Early Childhood Australia, 2018).
Reference:
Early Childhood Australia. (2018). Our Work - Early Childhood Australia. Retrieved from
http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/our-work/
Activity 7
Question 4
The Child Care Act, 2001 needs to be followed while designing indoor spaces for the child care centers.
The Building Code Australia and the Regulations 103-117 need to be followed while designing the indoor
spaces.
Summative assessment 1
Question 1
The physical needs for education and care centers include—
 Maintaining cleanliness and safety of the equipments, furniture and premises
 Use of fencing as necessary
 Presence of sufficient laundry facilities and other infrastructure to deal with the soiled clothes
 Presence of adequate toilet and drying facilities
 Maintenance of glass safety
 Sufficient ventilation in the premises
Question 2
The five learning outcomes of EYLF are –

1. The children need to develop the strong sense of identity
2. The children become able for connecting and contributing to their world
3. Children should possess the strong wellbeing sense
4. The children should grow as the involved and confident learner
5. Children should develop effective communication skill
The UN conventions state that the Childhood is entitled for deserving the special care and assistance. As
per the UN conventions, the family is considered as the fundamental group of the society. Children are
member of the family and they should be provided with the necessary protection as well as the
assistance. The children should be given with an atmosphere for love, happiness and understanding for
full development of personality and growing up. The child should be able to prepare completely for
living as an individual in the society. The child should also be dealt with freedom, solidarity, equality,
tolerance , dignity and peace. In addition to taking care of the children, the convention also focused on
providing the child with the social, cultural, economic, political and civil rights. The UN conventions
indicate that the children are mentally and physically immature and so, they need special care and legal
protection before and after the birth.
Reference
Ohchr.org. (2018). OHCHR | Convention on the Rights of the Child. Retrieved from
https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx
Question 6
As part of the growing up, the children should be made able to carry out their own tasks with
autonomy. The children should also have the confidence, to take decisions after evaluating the
situations. For building the confidence , it is necessary to allow the children to do their tasks
independently (Belsky et al., 2008). When the children are allowed to do their tasks, without any
interruption, they become able to judge the situations and take actions accordingly. It, in turn, helps
them to increase the analytical skills and promote self-advocacy. The Early Years Learning Framework
focuses on making the children able to contribute to their own world. Hence, it gives the educators with
the scope to facilitate the children to act independently.
Reference:
Belsky, J., Booth la Force, C., Bradley, R. H., Brownell, C. A., Burchinal, M., Campbell, S. B., ... & Kelly, J. F.
(2008). Mothers' and fathers' support for child autonomy and early school achievement. Developmental
Psychology, 44(4), 895-907.
Plan for child care facility:
1. Design of facility to promote physical care-- The physical health and safety of a child is
dependent significantly on the physical environment of the care center (Thomasm & Nuttall,
2014). In this case, the care center facility is developed on basis of the Building code Australia

and the quality area 3 of the National Quality Framework in Australia to ensure optimum safety
for the children.
The physical environment of the facility has the following attributes—
 The indoor and outdoor spaces are suitable for the purpose and accessible to the children
 The facility possess adequate number of furniture which are safe for children, clean and
well-maintained
 The physical environment facilitates the children to explore and take part in the play-based
learning
 Both the outdoor and indoor space is organized and facilitate learning for the children
2. Nutritional requirement: The quality area 2 of the National Quality Standard focusing on the
promotion of health and safety among every child (Thomasm & Nuttall, 2014). In the quality
center, the healthy eating and physical activity is given importance for each child. The
importance is given on maintenance of the hygienic practices also for avoiding the risk of
infection. The nutritional requirements vary along with the age and unique need of children. In
the current case, the nutritional experts are involved to identify the health status and the
nutritional requirement for every child and preparing the diet accordingly.
3. Clothing and temperature control-- The clothing of the child should be kept clean, comfortable
and safe. The facility has laundry to wash the soiled clothes. The temperature inside the facility
will be maintained at the comfortable level for the children.
4. Hygiene issues-- The children should be informed about the hygiene practices to avoid the
infection risks. The children will be monitored so that they follow the hygiene rules all the time.
Adequate number of staffs will be involved in the process to ensure that the children are not
exposing themselves to the infection risks.
5. Communication of safety issues-- the quality area 2 of National Quality Standard gives
importance on enhancing safety of the children (Fenech, 2013). As per the quality area 2,
supervision, child protection and incident and emergency management should be provided
importance. The reasonable precautions as well as the adequate level supervision ensure that
the children are not exposed to the hazard and harm. Advance planning for emergency and
incident management is needed to reduce the adverse effects. The plan for incidents and the
emergencies are made in advance after consulting with the relevant authorities. The safety
plans are also implemented and practiced on regular basis to avoid the safety issues. The
management of childcare facility, the staffs and the educators require being aware of the roles
and responsibilities to ensure that none of the children are at risk or being abused.
6. Communicating the need of exercise-- Taking part in the exercises is one of the important
activities that promote health among the children. However, for encouraging the children to
take part in the exercise and other physical activities, it is necessary to inform them regarding
the positive effects. In the childcare facility, the professionals will be present to ensure that
every child is informed about the positive aspects of exercising. The need of exercise changes
along with the age and the health status of the children. The opinions from the experts will be
sought to identify the unique need of exercising among the children.

7. Encouraging children to learn things autonomously-- The Child care center has incorporated
the EYLF for developing the learning programs. Through the learning programs, it is ensured that
the desired learning outcomes as mentioned in the EYLF are achieved. The EYLF aims at making
the children able to contribute to their world. In the current child care programs, the educators
give importance on promoting the independence among the children. As a result, the children
can develop the confidence among themselves.
8. Encouraging children in food preparation and procurement-- Enabling the children to take part
in household works can be effective for building on their confidence and developing new skills
among them. The extent, to which a child can be engaged to the food preparation and other
works, depends on the age and existing skills. The childcare facility ensures that the children are
supervised when they are taking part in the household activities. The support staffs and
educators in the facility are trained to encourage the children for their motivation with positive
feedbacks.
9. Taking care of emotional needs-- the emotional needs of children change along with their age.
The children should be taught the right ways to express their emotional status to the others. The
educators at the childcare facility ensure that the children are being familiar with the different
ways to share their emotional status. The educators also focus on ensuring that the values and
culture of the child are being incorporated into their learning.
10. Managing tantrums and unacceptable behaviour-- The children often show tantrum and
unacceptable behaviours. Such behaviours can be managed effectively by identifying the key
reasons and the behavior patterns. In the care facility, the educators focus on identifying the
personality traits and the triggering factors behind unacceptable behaviour. The educators in
the care center give importance on making the behaviour support plan to get rid of the
tantrums in a systematic way.
11. Comfortable access to equipments- The equipments in the care center needs to be placed in
easily accessible manner for the children. In the current childcare facility also, accessibility of
equipments are ensured by keeping things at a reachable height for children.
References:
Fenech, M. (2013). Quality early childhood education for my child or for all children?: Parents as
activists for equitable, high-quality early childhood education in Australia. Australasian Journal of
Early Childhood, 38(4), 92.
Thomasm, L., & Nuttall, J. (2014). Negotiating policy-driven and state-mandated expectations of
leadership: Discourses accessed by early childhood educators in Australia. New Zealand Research in
Early Childhood Education, (17), 101.