Role Of The Day Care Key Worker

Ideally, each age group within a day care should have a key worker who supports and represents it.  This person builds critical relationships with both families and children and coordinates information pertaining to their charges sharing it as needed with parents and other staff.  This way consistency and continuity of care is maintained which is vital for supporting the foundations for their development and ensures the emotional and physical well being of the child. 

Settling the child into day care with minimum stress is achieved through regular communication with the parents.  The key worker absorbs every jot of information about the child/parent relationship in order that they may use that knowledge to ease the transition to day care.  Development plans and progress reports for each individual child are also maintained by the key worker.  These help chart the interests and behaviour of the child and any changes therein.

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