Salmaa Begum

12RMU
Mrs Qureshi unit 8: working with parents and others in Early Years

3A.P1: Explain the importance of promoting equality and diversity for

individuals with different needs.

Partnership work is essential to help benefit a child, the main aim is to give them the
best learning experience and in order to do so it is by working with them alongside
them. A good example of this is the legal requirement in England for Early Years
settings to carry out a progress check on 2 years old and a duty to inform parents
about the results of the assessment. (Tassoni, 2016) This must be carried out by all
Early Years educators and professionals to help ensure a clear picture of the child’s
development and it gives practitioners and parents support on how to help the child
by making plans and understanding the child’s needs. This assignment will start off
with Legislation-The Children Act 1989 and 2004.
Legislation is a set of rules and regulations that are obligatory to be followed. The
ongoing child protection system is followed by the Children Act 1989 and 2004. The
act was made to ensure every child’s wellbeing, safety and to help make sure that
every child is enjoying their life to the fullest with positive contribution. The act
reaches to achieve economic stability for a better future for children and to help
ensure that all children get a fair chance at life. The Children’s Act was altered after
1989 after the devastating death of eight year old Victoria Climbié (2000) who was
murdered by her aunt and aunt’s boyfriend, her death resulted in changes towards
the legislation of the Children Act and provided better understanding towards
children, The Children Act 2004 sets out the guidance for the process of integrating
services to children and had resulted in the keeping children safe report and Every
child matters green paper (DFES,2003) which led to the children Act 2004.This
means that the legislation was put in place to help guide people with jobs of safe
guarding and of people who are trying to help children with different matters affecting
them.This relates back to partnership work as everyone involved with a child must
work together to support them and help them live a safe and bright life.
Parental responsibility is when the legal parent/carer has responsibility of the
child.This can also be decided regarding the child’s upbringing and what the parent
initially wants for the child. This means that they must take on the basic day-to-day
decisions and responsibilities that will affect the child, alike sending them to school,
teaching them basic hygiene, feeding them and keeping them in a safe and tidy
environment. whereas, when the time for any big decisions that may have a major
effect on the child comes the decision must be taken upon the local authorities and
everyone who has parental responsibility, these can either be medical intake, school,
religion and culture.However, if the parents disagree they are elligable to go to
court,This also relates back to having parental decision. By law, the mother
automatically gains parental responsibility whilst the father must go through a
procedure to gain parental responsibility,This can either be through the mother’s
permission or if their name has been written on the baby’s birth certificate. Although,
in order to do so they can either make a personal agreement with the mother or go to

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Salmaa Begum
12RMU
Mrs Qureshi unit 8: working with parents and others in Early Years

a family court and ask to be granted parental responsibilty.This relates back to

partnership work as in order for both parents to have parental responsibility they
must work together towards being able to provide for their child and giving them the
life they deserve.