Impact of Leadership on Child Development and Wellbeing in Childcare

This report assesses the impact of leadership practices within childcare services on the development and wellbeing of children. It evaluates the role of practitioners in fostering quality practices, emphasizing the importance of adult roles, the environment, and the child's agency in their own learning. The report discusses how high-quality childcare supports children's communication, intellectual, and social development, facilitated by effective leadership that promotes teamwork and informed decision-making. It highlights the significance of adults—practitioners, childminders, and parents—in managing resources and providing a supportive environment, alongside the crucial role of a well-managed environment in fostering emotional support and cognitive skills. The report also examines how children, as active agents, can influence their own learning through expressing their needs and making choices, supported by effective leadership strategies that encourage participation and decision-making. Ultimately, the study concludes that quality is paramount in early childcare settings, requiring practitioners to implement effective leadership practices to ensure optimal growth and development for children.

INTRODUCTION
The children care, learning and well-being provisions are consider as one of the most
important part of world legislation, in various context, such as growth, development children
along with society (Featherstone and Gupta, 2018). In order to manage the effective children
growth and development provision one of the most important thing is leadership quality and
practices. Leader can assure the quality of children growth and development along with the
assures of effective role of the adults and environment. In this report impact of the child care
services provision, leadership practices, child care quality, role of the adults, environment and
child as an active agent in their learning is evaluated to measure its impact on children.
MAIN BODY
Discuss the impact of practitioner role in developing and leading effective quality practice
Quality
In context to the children care services high quality is very important for supporting
the development in babies and young children's, as it helps in the consideration of good
practice and procedures of child education and activities to increase the children
communication, intellectual and social development. Definition of the quality is depends on
the stakeholders ideas and requirements. On the basis of The Organisation for Economic Co-
operation and Development quality in the child care setting is involving, effective
management of the children well-being and development resources. With the forecasting of
all activities like child education, activities, under the child-led curriculum along with the aid
of educated and skills staff. Childminders or practitioner roles to identify the individual child
role and manage the child care plan according to their needs, with adequate funding. safe and
stimulating, loving environment contribute to the quality. The effective leadership can
contribute to the quality of child care by the effective team work and group decision for child
care and development (Sansfaçon and Bellot 2018).
Leadership
Leadership is the action or process of managing things through effective direction, guidelines
and support. In this report the select provisions is leadership role of the environment, adults
and child active act in learning and development. Below is the brief discussion or explanation
on leadership of environment, adults and child's as an active agent on their own learning
(Camussi and Mancini, 2019).

Role of the adults
In the children care services provision the main role play by adults are practitioner,
childminders and parents. Their main role is to manage the all essential resource for the
quality care and provide the effective environment for their growth and development. Adults
role is to encourage the children's for sharing of their needs and support their choices on the
basis of its positive effects. I work as the child pay activity management practitioner in the
child early year services. For which I have to follow the National Quality Framework;
Department of Education and Skills (DES), 2017 which there after state as Síolta, standard 6
and promote the child development play activities. National Curriculum Framework, National
Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) 2009 is also used in completion of that role,
which is their after state as Aistear. As an practitioner I have to lead the child play activities
planing effectively with the incorporation of skill development games.
As practitioner my roles are illustrated below
In the context to the childcare I have to make sure the Adherences to childcare
legislation, regulations, policies and frameworks some of which are discussed above . With in
the every child care activities and task I have to make sure effective listening and
collaborating with young children. For the children's education and development activities I
have to Plan the environment and child-led curriculum. In order to achieve effective results in
the children's development I have to encourage parents participation, which motivate children
for the play activities and learning. I have to make sure the children's right should be
consider in every task and they should be safeguarded according to the key legislation.
Role of the environment
Environment is one of the most important factor which lead the children learning and
development through through its positive and negative impact. Quality environment in
context to the early year child care services organisation, is consider as the environment
which possess the higher qualified staff, learning assessment, hygienic pay and study area,
good and effective activities for the children's development, such as family environment,
game, child assessment and program management (Andersen and Holm-Petersen, 2018).
Good environment provide the emotional support to the children which make their constative
skills more stronger and further help in the effective learning.
layout of the environment and the resources provided in setting
I an working as the practitioner in child care setting in the children pay activities
management area (Tallon and Young, 2017). Under which I am managing the good
interactive, supportive environment for children, by leading the proper arrangement, risk

assessment and preventive measures. Below are some aliments of the environment which
cover under this setting (Lazar and Davenport, 2018).
 Interpersonal interactions
 Safe physical environment
 Effective leadership
 Play activities curriculum according to age
 Family engagement activities
 Child play equipments and area cleaning along with sanitisation.
Sanitisation is recommanded in the resent inspection to improve the environment.
Síolta- environments standard, Síolta research digests, Department of Education and Skills, is
involving the guidelines and instruction for the quality environment in context to children
setting. According to this standard child both indoor and outdoor environment should be
facilitated with all essential equipments and material. All assets should be well manage, safe,
accessible, available, appropriate for the childminder. Which can offers the effective
stimulating experiences (Oke and O’Neill 2021).
Evaluate provision and practice and it impacts on the development and well-being of babies
and young children
Children as Active Agents
Children can lead their own effective learning, development, by the support of adults
effective leadership, which can help the child to make the proper analysis of their needs and
support them to make their own choice regarding particular area of learning and specification
(Carrillo and Schneider, 2017). Child can direct their own development and learning in right
area, by expressing that to the adults.
Importance of recognising children as an active agent in their learning, is that children
can identify their control over their own understanding. This is important because this can
help to identify and strengthening the best and more effective skills of the child. This can
encourage the child to manage things and control their life with right decision (Yadav, 2018).
In our child care setting child’s agency considered as the key step of play activities
planing, under which child is encouraged to make their own choice and suggest their interest
related to skills development play activities. Such as in the send play activities planing
children are supported to give their own suggestion for play activities and they are also
encouraged to suggest the other appropriate play activities which they love.

My role in this area is to use the effectively leadership strategies for increasing the
participation of children in play activities decision making which can further help to improve
their active agent quality (Cho and Song, 2017).
CONCLUSION
From the above study it has been concluded that in early child care setting, quality is
the important factor which have to be consider under the all provision of child care. Such as
in the environment, adults role and child active agent leadership. For this practitioner have to
perform the effective leadership practices, such as group discussion, key stakeholders
participation and motivation for the growth and development activities and planing.

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