Lamesley Childcare: External Environment Analysis and Staff Challenges

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Lamesley Childcare, a UK-based childcare provider, focusing on its external environment and internal challenges. The report begins with an introduction to Lamesley Childcare, highlighting its services, target age group, and commitment to quality. Task 1 involves a detailed audit of the external environment using the PESTEL analysis, examining political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal factors affecting the organization. Task 2 investigates the challenges faced by childcare staff, including issues like lack of personal freedom, conflict management, empowerment, low pay, and insufficient resources, alongside potential solutions for staff satisfaction and retention. Task 3 offers recommendations for improvement, emphasizing the importance of social knowledge, emotional and psychological well-being, and providing a supportive environment for both children and staff, thus enhancing the overall quality of care and operational efficiency. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the need for continuous improvement and adaptation to ensure the long-term success of Lamesley Childcare.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Toddler and children's from the age of 1 Year to 15 years are educated and cared at the
children's care canter. They are very sensitive towards environment changes and staff behaviour
so they need proper education and care with the appropriate guidance for their developing life.
They also need the proper nutritious diet for their physical growth (Khadra, Ballard, Déry 2018).
Children's canter care is basically small organizations, who aid the working parents to provide
the proper care and education to their small children’s at their working hours. With the help of
this patent can be able give the safe environment to their children's. Lamesley children's care, is
the children's care agency of UK. It provides the before and after school services to the children's
of working peoples. They also offer the Holiday care services and breakfast club services to the
children's of Lamesley which is close to team Valley. This report is about Lamesley Childcare
organization external environment analysis and staff satisfaction challenges investigation in
order to developed the best recommendation for the improvement of Lamesley Childcare
organization and management strategy’s.
TASK 1
Detailed audit of external environment of Lamesley Childcare
There in the present atmospheric condition and developing world, it effects the children's
care organization and they have to follow the changes of external factors in order to run their
organization smoothly. As it is related to the children's so it needs the more efforts and
implantation of right organization plane. For the analysis and balancing of organization external
environment there is one tool known as PESTEL analysis (Phoenixand Boddy, 2017). It is a very
useful analytical tool aid to understand the external factors and its effects along with the
management of all those elements for smooth flow of the organization. It name represent the
external factors such as P refer for political factors, E refer for economical factor, S for social, T
for technological, E for environmental and L for legal element. So every type of organization has
to flow this factors according to their work or objective. The brief Auditing of external
environment of Lamesley Childcare is discussed below.
Political: This part of the tool is about analysing the political laws and rules related to the
organization. In order to identify the strength and weakness of the organization in prospect of all

these factors’. So that collecting the information company can take the right step. For the
children care canter there are the different rules and laws and it increased in longer list due to the
COVID spreading. Lamesley Childcare is giving the proper training of Statutory training in
chilled protection. They are following the food hygiene standard’s to in order to provide healthy
and nutritive food items to their children’s.
Economical: This part is about identifying the tax rules and the financial, employment
condition of the targeted place (. Lugg-Widger, Angel, Cannings 2018) . Health care
organization need to follow the economic growth status in order to make the balanced care plane
at minimum investment. Lamesley Childcare is facing with some sort of economic problems
because of the COVID 19 effect and they need make their economical state stable.
Social: This involves the identification of present social needs in prospect to the services
and social values related to it. So that it can helps to provide the right services to their customers.
Children care organization should meet the requirements of the parents and social culture growth
of the children with the proper guidance of ethics and morels. Lamesley Childcare is providing
the best of cultural activities to the children for their ethical and cultural development, but due to
the COVID 19 situation they have to maintain some distance games and activities, with aid of
sanitized play materials.
Technological: At this point it requires the identification of the developing technological
which can aid to provide the more facilitating services. In order to update the present
mechanisms and technology with the new and effective techniques. For the children’s care
organization, they need to implement the children’s protecting techniques, such as pollutant
filtration exhaust and ventilation. As per the present COVEID 19 situation organization need to
implement the disinfecting techniques for the safety of children. Lamesley Childcare is using one
of the best technologies for their management system and now they need the implementation of
some disinfecting tools and machines.
Environmental: This part of the process involves the analysis of environmental factors
which can impact the plans and services. Such as seasonal changes, environment safety lows.
And the present atmospheric conditions which can cases the variant effects on organization
management system. Children’s care organization have to change their management plane
according to the environmental changes, such as on the basis of seasonal changes and on the
basis of present health care problems related to the present environmental condition

(Diriwaechter, and Shvartsman, 2018). Due to the COVID 19 it become very crucial to take
safety masers by concerning the atmospheric condition. Lamesley Childcare from the beginning
is using one of the best environments and safe instructions for children’s and now they need to
take some major actions like replacement of play items cannot be sanitize and disinfected.
Legal factors: This includes the analysis of developing legal and government rules and
regulations related to the organization (Yuh, and Choi 2017). Such as in terms of Children's care
canter, it involves the analysis and following of children's safety acts. Along with present safety
guidelines related to the COVID 19 prevention. Lamesley Childcare is annually inspected for
analysis of their management system effectivity. They have acquired the 4Childrence quality
assurance scheme level 3 and working for the more improvements.
TASK 2
Investigation of the challenges faced by childcare canter in prospect of staff satisfaction
Children’s care staff satisfaction challenge is related to the problem they are facing in the
organization so it needs to identify their problem’s and help them out from that situation,
below is brief discussion on challenges facing by the staff and the measurements for staff
retention.
Challenges faced by children care staff
Least of personal freedom: This is one of the major problem causes the staff
dissatisfaction because at this type of work association they need to focused in children’s
activities and stack on their duties without appropriate break and relaxation. So staff members
are not getting the personal freedom for their personal problems which causes the irritation in the
mind of staff for job duties and this can lead towards the job resignation. In Lamesley Childcare
staff are not getting the appropriate working hours.
Conflict management issues: The staff members of the children’s services association
are facing the problem in the conflict management between themselves due to the inappropriate
time and higher work load. At Lamesley Childcare there is the need to take the suggestion of
staff members and senior staff for decision making.
Lake of empowerment: In children care cater staff is not getting the independent
authorities to manage their work and all time they are surrounded by the senior managers, so
they feel bounded and suffocated (Leone, and Pesce 2017). And this can also be a reason of

employee’s resignation. In Lamesley Childcare they are not empowering their staff with
developing and changing authorities.
Low payment job: Children care services staff are facing low income and higher work
responsibility’s. so in some times its, work load, lake of freedom collectively causes the
employees dissatisfaction and loss of staff members’ from the organisation (Ivanovska
Hadjievska, and Stavenes, 2020).
Lake of the management tools: In some of the children care canter staff members are
facing the problem of inappropriate education and children management material or supplies. All
the above factors or challenges are causes of staff resignation form association. Lamesley
Childcare they need to conduct the regular staff meetings in order to transfer the information of
parent’s guidelines and requirements.
Measures which should be implemented for satisfaction and retention of children’s care
staff
Empowerment: Organization can conduct the empowerment training, programmes for
motivating their staff along with proper authorization of their duties separately according to their
skills. Motivation and comfortable responsibilities on the basis of their speciality helps the staff
to work effectively, and make them comfortable to work at these type of organization. Lamesley
Childcare is offering their experienced staff with level certificates.
Opportunities: Employees should be offered with the growth and development
opportunity’s, along with bonus and increment planning. In order to retain them at organization
with compete efforts. Lamesley Childcare is providing the different training opportunities to
their fresher staff.
Support in class room: They should offer with effective time scheduling system in order
to give them some personal freedom. Employees should have complete support of mangers and
seniors once they need.
Availability of classroom equipment’s: There in the class room and play room, all the
required study and play materials should be present. Which aid the staff to manage the children,
easily without stress.
Extra work compensation: Employees should be offered with compensation price for
their extra work in order to retain their loyalty and trust for organization (Schober, and Schmitt
2017).

All the above discussed measures aid to satisfy the employees with children’s care
service organization. Lamesley Childcare is having best grade staff (NVQ level 2 and 3) for their
work accomplishment and management. And they are following the systematic distribution of
work authority’s in order to have the smooth flow of work, without any conflict. But they need to
conduct the proper meeting, staff feedbacks, and role increments.
TASK 3
Recommendation of implementation requirement’s
Social knowledge: There is a considerable body of demonstrating and elaborating individuals in
the social environment (Prayukvong, Sornprasith, and Foster 2018). Which influences the health
status all through by mechanism. Which does not get fully understood by number of peoples and
number of possible mechanism in a term of hypothesis that the development and during this
stage of any child. They are totally depend on high quality education and a proper child care. As
per the above case study, it is defined as the Lamesley child care report is an child report which
is based on the development and attainment of any child in mode of proper education and
positive development. In the development of child care children care usually help a child to grow
with social factors. The social factor helps children to learn many of things like emotion and
feelings and other sectional things which create them to live in a society. For children social
elaboration is very important to grow fast within the society and play with the group which helps
to developed a quality of social-economic status for better development of children. Lamesley
child care centre provide this in a way by interacting them with the different section of people.
which help to develop the sociological influences in their cognitive development. The early
childhood education is very important for learn new things. generally provided while Lamsley
child care centre which child can formulate social relationship with other children and their
families, teachers. Which develop pro-social behaviour which is effective and helped in a future
academic achievements. Is all things are developed in a preschool section, where the cognitive
development is influenced by social environment during the early childhood. Even, continuously
moves to a different neighborhood. For example, if a child lives in a disadvantaged never off

during the early childhood experience reduce the cognitive development and advanced
performance. Which performance is may be useful when the neighbour and the family members
supported them.
Emotional and psychological well being: The social environment is very important for a
growing child which is associated with the social environment. Which have reduced the less risk
taking behaviour children's who grew up in a positive and decent environment are less likely to
have accident requiring treatment. There is also a decreased risk factor of formulating a new
substance which is diseased among children. Who have good social relationship compared to
those who don't have a good relationship. The sense of belonging which is generally particulate
experience, when the children have a good relationship then it helps to to create positive
influence in their mental health. Children who are good social relationship have create a greater
self esteem and self actualization. As comparison to those who don't have the children's who are
not experiencing this type of relationship have facing so much mental health problems like
depression and anxiety there are also evidences that process will behaviour during child
childhood leads to better psychological health in the maturity face (Jakimowicz, and Maben,
2020). Lamesley child care centre help to develop the behaviour which based on their self-
esteem. For example and Australian report which is followed by their parents. Where they are
living in a community children's are not growing in a positive environment.
Motivation: Individuals living in a social environment which is the trade by positive social
relationship and more motivated to the children for their work help for their ambitions. For
example, the peer support has been found that it is a major predictor of a child motivation in a
positive social goals. While teachers and others are support to enhance the child motivation for
both in the field of social and academic goals and achievements. Parents also influences their
children and in terms to increase their levels and interest in a schools and their achievements.
which helpful in our future to achieve something day.
Physical health: For developing child physical health is important to learn many of skills and
knowledge. which create the sportsmanship in based of a good physical health. A good physical
health reduce the risk of obesity and fats and eating disorders. There are many children's who
engaged in a good social relationship but they are less likely to develop eating disorder than
those who do not. There is a increased likelihood of being in a social, there is a lot of children
who are living in a social environment which is positive in nature and they are totally

immunised. so as per the context with Lamesley child care centers, they provided a good social
environment to the children's for grow in ethical and value way. A good development of child
also for a girl reduce the risk of teenage pregnancy because the poor quality of knowledge and
base. Which is developed by parents due to poor education. Which create the immaturity that
cause the teenage pregnancy? The physical health also increases the spotting ability and create
the positive social environment to perform a better at their games (. Chen, Miller, Milbourn
2020). Which help to develop lot of skill and sportsmanship inside a child.
CONCLUSION
From the complete study of children care canter, management rules and regulations. Along
with analysis of organization challenges it has been concluding that children care centre, has to
go with the complete analysis and implementation of external environment satisfactory
organization strategy’s. In order to provide one of the best children’s care services with the
healthy and positive environment. For the better education of the children’s it need to recruit
highly qualified staff and management of their retention with the appropriate guideline and
support, such as by empowering them, compensating for extra work, motivation. Lamesley
Childcare is one of the best children’s care association but it need to work for the staff
satisfaction by compensating and empowerment.

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