Early Childhood Education | Assignment

Running head: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
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SHC53-4.4:
Management strategy for risk when balancing individual rights and duty of care:
In The United Arab Emirates, provision of safety, protection of every child has gained
increased attention as a public health concern due to high incidents of workplace hazard and
bully in the school setting. Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulation (RIDDOR) 1995
provide a guideline to the staff members and other members for mitigating the risk arise in the
classroom and outdoor areas. The risk or hazard in the classroom setting experienced by the
children includes erroneous administration of medication, unattended children, and frequent
cuts from edges of the toys and equipment and health issues from chemical disinfectants. In this
context, the most effective strategy to manage risk while balancing the duty of care and
individual rights is to adopt control measures for reducing potential harms that children are at
high risk. The common way of adopting measures are the following:
 In order to gather adopt control measures, the initial step is to assess the children who are
at high risk of subjecting to hazard. The early screening of the children will provide an
understanding of the children who are at risk and adopt measures according to it.
 Apart from assessment, general control measures that can be adopted include the
elimination of loose cables and loose pebbles in the outdoor play area along with the
elimination of carpet from the indoor setting. It will prevent children from the risk of
tripping and falling while playing.
 Sufficient safety proofed and child-friendly space must be allotted to each child so that no
children are subjected to hazard due to overcrowded area. For avoiding sunburn, sun hats
along with sun-protected cream must be provided to the children. Additionally, the
children would be provided with mosquito repellent for avoiding the mosquito bites.

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 First aid box is required to present within the child care setting for management of risk.
When children will be subjected to injury, open communication with the parents is
required to do for faster management. The staffs must have adequate knowledge
regarding the mitigation of the hazard within the childcare. Adequate training and
workshops must be provided so that accurate mandatory reporting can be done while
hazard will be observed.
M1-3.1:
Development of policies and practices for management of the risk of individuals:
In order to develop policy, the first step is to review the existing policy and review the
need for policy and procedure in the health and childcare setting. In order to develop policy,
process and procedure for managing the risk of others, the review of current practices and
strategic plan for risk management is required to conduct. In order to conduct a review
background documentation needs to be issued containing the policy statements, the child safety
standards and the procedures. Additionally, the risk registers and risk management strategies are
required to review so that new policy can be developed. During the policy development,
Feedback from the guardians is required to obtain for assessing the effectiveness of the
management strategies. Feedback should also be obtained from the educators and other
caregivers of the child care setting for gaining an understanding of the amount of work that has
been done and their workload. After a detailed review, the gap analysis is required to do where
compliance of the current policy practice and strategy with the proper standard, code of conduct
is required to assess. The gap between current practice and the proper standard of practice will
provide the idea of the new policy and practice development. For developing new practice, it is
crucial to consider that current practice must contain resilience and empathy to support the