Positive relationships Key people: part 3 - Good relations

Nursery World, 8 May 2008

Strategies to engage the third partner in the key person approach - the parent - as a child enters and settles in to nursery are explained in our continuing series on key caring by Anne O'Connor

The key person 'should help the baby or child to become familiar with the provision and to feel confident and safe within it, developing a genuine bond with the child (and the child's parents) and offering a settled, close relationship,' says the Statutory Framework for the EYFS, p37. TRIANGLE OF RELATIONSHIPS The bond with a child's parents is just as important to the key person approach as the relationship...

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