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Working with children, parents, carers and families

  • Webcasts
  • 19 Jul 2017
early years
Webcast

In this webcast, we will look at involving parents and carers and building effective practitioner and parent partnerships, in order to support children with special educational needs and disabilities (or SEND). The importance of working with all those involved in caring for young children, including parents, carers and the wider family, is widely accepted as good practice in the early years.

Some questions/ideas to think about while you listen/read:

How might working with the parents of children with SEND be challenging?

What is your role in working with parents?

Is there anything you think you could do better with regard to this? How?

Does your setting have somewhere where staff can talk to parents in private? If not, could this be set up?

Find the Local Offer for your local authority by searching for it online. Become familiar with it so you can advise parents.

Suitable for: A parent/carer, Early Years Practitioner

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