CYPOP 3 Lead and manage a community-based early years setting

1. Understand the purposes, benefits and key features of community-based early years provision

2. Be able to lead the team in a community-based early years setting

  • 2.1 Demonstrate leadership skills in own practice
  • 2.2 Implement activities with the setting’s staff team to share and promote their understanding of good practice
  • 2.3 Implement strategies to create and maintain a team culture among all of the staff and parents in a community-based early years setting
  • 2.4 Examine the effectiveness of own practice in implementing the principles of community-based early years provision

3. Be able to engage parents as partners in the community-based early years setting

  • 3.1 Establish and maintain a relationship of partners with the parents of an early years setting
  • 3.2 Exchange information with parents about the progress of their child’s learning and development
  • 3.3 Involve parents in decisions about plans and activities to progress their child’s learning and development
  • 3.4 Involve parents in the activities of the early years setting

4. Be able to engage parents in the management/decision making processes of an early years setting

  • 4.1 Explain the role of the parent management committee/support group in a community-based early years setting
  • 4.2 Demonstrate support to parents’ involvement in the parent management committee/support group of a community-based early years setting

5. Be able to provide learning opportunities to support parents’ participation in a community-based early years setting

  • 5.1 Utilise the informal learning opportunities arising from parents’ participation in activities to promote the learning and development of their own child and the setting’s children
  • 5.2 Give a detailed account of a learning activity provided by the setting for its parents to develop their understanding of its early years curriculum, to include: • why the activity was appropriate for the setting’s parents • how the setting encouraged parents to participate in the activity
  • 5.3 Provide parents with information about resources to enable them to develop the knowledge and skills to participate effectively in the parent management committee/support group of the setting

6. Be able to manage the resource, regulatory and financial requirements for a community-based early years setting

  • 6.1 Explain the regulatory requirements of the work setting and the lines of responsibility and reporting
  • 6.2 Explain how human resources are managed within the setting
  • 6.3 Demonstrate how systems of resource management operate in the work setting
  • 6.4 Demonstrate how financial systems in the setting are operated and accountability maintained according to appropriate standards

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