Case Study: Childcare - Sleep, Supervision & WHS in Early Education

This assignment presents a case study focused on various aspects of childcare, including managing children's sleep and rest, ensuring adequate supervision, and addressing workplace health and safety (WHS) concerns. It provides scenarios involving children with specific needs, such as Tim, who requires a structured diet and afternoon naps, and Kevin, who is adjusting to childcare and needs assistance with toileting. The tasks involve creating checklists for sleep and rest practices, developing quiet play activities, providing instructions for substitute educators, and conducting a self-assessment of stress and fatigue levels related to WHS. The overall goal is to ensure the well-being and safety of children while adhering to established standards and regulations. Desklib offers a wealth of resources for students, including similar case studies and past papers.

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CASE STUDY: PART B
Case Study 1: Sleep and Rest
All children have individual sleep and rest requirements.
Children need a comfortable, relaxing environment to enable
their bodies to rest. This environment must be safe and well
supervised to ensure children are safe, healthy and secure in
their environment.
SCENARIO 1
You are working as an early childhood educator in Sparkling Stars Childcare Centre. You
are in charge of taking care of the following two children:
Tim:
Tim is 3 years old. He likes to sleep with his favourite blanket that his mum packs for him
when he goes to the centre. His mum has informed you that Tim gets very agitated
throughout the day when he does not get his afternoon nap and
prefers that the centre ensures he gets his nap before she picks him
up in the afternoon.
Tim does not like to eat vegetables. However, his mum is very
particular about his diet:
- A portion of vegetables in every meal (he is not
allowed to have dessert unless he finishes all his
vegetables)
- He can only have dessert after lunch provided he
finishes all his vegetables.
- He is not allowed to have sweets between 1PM to 2PM and past 5PM
- He is lactose intolerant and very sensitive with other milk-based products
He is a very active and playful kid. He loves playing physical games with other kids such
as tag, hide and seek, catch, etc. He gets easily bored with activities like storytelling, craft
making and any other activities that do not involve physical play.

Kevin:
Kevin is 2 years old and is still used to sleeping in a cot. He just
started going to the centre and is still afraid to be left in the
centre without his mum. Hearing his mum’s voice calms him
down and helps him go to sleep. So his mum provided the centre
with a recording of herself reading bedtime stories to play for
Kevin when he is having difficulty sleeping.
Aside from him being very shy around other kids and new people,
Kevin is very easy to take care of. He follows his diet without any
problem and does not require a lot of attention when he is awake.
He likes to keep to himself watching educational programs for children while holding his
favourite stuffed toy. He is still potty trained, but he knows how to call an adult he is
familiar with when he needs to go to the toilet. When no one familiar is around when he
needs to go to the toilet, he soils himself and becomes very embarrassed and wouldn’t let
anyone but his mum clean him up.
Feeding, sleeping and nappies/ toileting are some of the specific needs for Kevin as he is
only 2 years currently and need specific care. The sleeping and other patterns should be
analysed, for improved efficiency within child lifestyle habits. Feeding, sleeping and
nappies along with essentials for tolieting for childrn should be there as it further enables to
determine best children care for improved wellness. Kevin should be given special care, to
improvise experience and care while feeding and sleeping along with nappies. This will
enable proper care to be delivered and generate proper child care to be delivered. The
child should be also given proper sanitized and clean nappies and sleeping place
arrangement, for ideal care. Centre should also take care of various conditions such as
keeping specific practices in schedule for all activities such as feeding, sleeping and
nappies management.
Your task: Ensure sleep and rest practices are consistent with approved standards and meet the
children’s individual needs by creating a checklist that you can use for the children described above.
Use the safe sleep and rest practices provided in the link below as your reference:
Safe Sleep and Rest Practices
Use the template provided in the link below to create your checklist:
Sleep and Rest Checklist

SCENARIO 2
Tim would not go to sleep during nap time one afternoon and kept pestering the other
children in the centre to play with him. You explained to Tim not to bother the other
children because they are trying to take a nap. After talking to him and explaining how
taking a nap would help him feel stronger and better after he wakes up, Tim still insists on
not going to bed and playing instead.
Your task:Provide three (3) options for appropriate quiet play activities for Tim by creating a plan
that outlines the steps you need to take as well as the resources you will require to implement the plan.
Fill out the table below to create your plan:
Quiet play
activity Description of the activity Resources required for the activity
1 Provide appropriate toys for Tim so
that he can play. Toys
2 Tell Tim to take nap with everyone by
listening to bedtime stories. Books and audio records
3 Play with Tim when he feels the urge
to play. Toys

Case Study 2: Providing Children Supervision
Ensuring the children have adequate supervision at all times is one of your responsibilities
as an early childhood educator in the centre.
SCENARIO
You have been taking the lead in providing care for Tim and Kevin since they started going
to the centre. In two weeks, you will be taking a 3-day vacation leave.
Your task:You are required to provide detailed instructions to Jenny, the educator who will be taking
the lead while you are away. In your email, you must CC Michelle, the assistant educator you have
been working with so that she can be reminded of these instructions.
You have to make sure that your instructions contain all the essential information needed to ensure the
children have adequate supervision at all times. Use the template provided below to document the
instructions you provide to Jenny.
To: Jenny Liberman
Cc: Michelle Schiffer
Subject: Instructions regarding care for Kevin and Tim
Attachmen
ts:
Message: Dear Jenny Liberman,
It is to bring to your kind notice that it is your sheer responsibility to take care
of Tim and Kevin and look after their sleep and regular work schedules as I am
on 3 day vacation leave. Kindly ensure that you fulfil all the needs and
requirements of both Tim and Kevin and take care of them so that they do not
face any difficulties while they are staying at the centre. Children should be
given specific feeding and toileting materials, as it will enable children to
improvise overall efficiency. Tim and Kevin should be provided with clean
and hygienic feeding, sleeping and nappies arrangements as it will enable
children to be safe. Also centre need to take full responsibility of care within
varied lifestyle habits of children by taking supervision and advices from
parents about the children specific preferences.
Yours Sincerely.

Case Study 3: Organisational WHS
The Work Health and Safety Act requires that anyone who can affect health and safety
must protect the well-being of themselves and others.
As an early childhood educator in a childcare centre, you have an important role to play in
this and should be aware that your actions at work directly influence the safety of you, your
workmates, the children and their families.
SCENARIO 1
You are an early childhood educator working in Sparkling Stars Childcare Centre. To
ensure everyone’s safety, Sparkling Stars requires all its employees to undergo a self-
assessment exercise to help them understand their own levels of stress and fatigue.
Your task:Using your own experience as an early childhood educator in your vocational workplace,
answer the questionnaire that follows to reflect on your own levels of stress and fatigue at work.

Job demands and working conditions: Yes, regularly No or sometimes
Do you have enough time to get your job
done properly? 
Are you exposed to unfavourable physical
conditions in your work (for example
unfavourable climate, noise, radiation,
chemicals, sharp or moving objects, slippery
surfaces, constant repetitive work, heavy
lifting or strenuous work)

Participation and control: Yes, regularly No or sometimes
Can you choose your own work methods,
pace, and/or order? 
Can you decide yourself when to take a
break? 
Are you involved in decision making? 
Are there regular meetings to discuss work? 
Can you improve any unfavourable physical
loads in your work? 
Interpersonal relationships: Yes, regularly No or sometimes
Do you receive support from your supervisor
and/or colleagues? 
Are you isolated from others during work? 
Are you treated differently, for example,
because you are your race, gender, ethnic
origin or disability?

Do you experience violence from customers,
clients, patients or members of the public? 
Career development and job security: Yes, regularly No or sometimes
Do you have good career prospects? 
Are you able to develop your skills and
intellect in your job? 
Is your job security good? 
Is it likely that during the next couple of
years you will be in the present job with your
current employer?


Working hours: Yes, regularly No or sometimes
Do you work long hours? 
Do you work evenings, nights, and/or
weekends (shift work)? 
Do you have irregular working hours? 
Role in the company and information: Yes, regularly No or sometimes
Do you have conflicting tasks/roles? 
Do you receive enough information to do
your work properly? 
Do you receive feedback on your
performance? 
Income: Yes, regularly No or sometimes
Is your income sufficient to support yourself
and your family? 
Overall Reflection:
The job which I am currently
working in Sparkling Stars
Childcare Centre as a childhood
educator I am able to analyse
my roles and responsibilities but
there are some of the negative
aspects which is affecting my
health at large pace. There are
some positive aspects points
which help me get through my
job and some negative aspects
which hinder my performance
at small level. I am therefore
able to manage my work at
Sparkling Stars Childcare
Centre by being a childhood
educator.
I am also concerned about my
working hours which are
sometimes very hectic and
create stress to me. It triggers
me to perform better but in
stress I fail to perform better.
Also, my interpersonal
relationships with my
colleagues if very good as they
help me in my work sometimes
when I am overloaded with
work and I do the same when
they are overloaded with work.

I am also able to take care of
my relationships with them as
they are helpful and are very
caring towards me. My
participation within
organization is very positive as
I am involved in decision
making.

SCENARIO 2
Letting the designated person know your concerns relevant to work-related stress and
fatigue is an essential step in resolving potential safe work issues in the future.
Your task: Review the relevant workplace procedures in the link provided below and follow the
outlined reporting process. Use the template below to document your completion of this task.
WHS Handbook
(note: use the space provided below as if you are writing the email to the designated personnel as per
the WHS Handbook requirement)
To: Vocational Workplace Supervisor
Cc: Sparkling Stars Childcare Centre
Subject: Relevant concerns to work related stress and fatigue in resolving safe
work issues in the future.
Attachments:
Message: This is to bring to your kind notice that there is some work related
stress and fatigue which has been occurred to us. It is my kind request
to resolve the issues which have created stress at the workplace. These
are caused due to -
 Excessive workloads on employees.
 Long shifts.
 Working nights.
 Inadequate sleep over extended periods.
 Working for long hours.
Kindly ensure that the employees are not facing such issues which are
causing them to increase their stress levels and causing fatigue to them
which is also affecting their performance at the workplace.
Yours Sincerely.