Range of Activities for School Aged Children

Range of activities with focus on play for the school
aged children

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
School aged childcare is referred to as the development which is useful in the development
of the emotional, physical and mental abilities among the children who are between 6 to 12 years
of age. Building of the sustainable, high quality, affordable and accessible childcare services
within the Ireland is of utmost importance. Within Ireland the pre-school did not tend to exist
between 1980 to 1990. The childcare earlier was usually provided by the family members
(ACTION PLAN ON SCHOOL AGE CHILDCARE, 2020). The quality in school aged
childcare is significant in meeting and complying with the needs of schools, children and parents.
It is of key relevant importance to comply with the good hygiene, health and safety in order to be
highly responsive care to the child.
The National quality framework for the early childhood education, 2006 is useful for
regulating and also helps in the quality assessment related with the care services and education.
United nation convention on the rights of the child is useful in setting out the right of the
child to participation and helps in expressing the viewpoints freely.
The Early Childcare and Education scheme in turn has been significantly provided to the
early childhood care and it leads to imparting of the education the children who belong to the
pre-school age.
The Childcare act 1991 which mainly seeks at effectively promoting the welfare of the
children who in turn does not receive protection and adequate level of care. This legislation is
useful in promotion of the significant welfare of the child.
MAIN BODY
Comprehensive range of activities
The School age childcare model in Ireland mainly comprises of the range of organised set
of appropriate degree of structured programmes, activities and clubs for the specific school aged
children which tends to take place within the specific supervised environment. This model
mainly comprise of the accessibility, child and family centred care, affordability and quality
standards (Gavin, and et.al., 2015). The children rights based approach with the guiding
principles has been complied with effectively. The programme for partnership government, 2016
mainly contains specific set of recommendations and commitments associated with the school
age childcare. The government mainly focuses on developing key set of commitment associated
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