WHAT IS A KEYPERSON?
DEFINITION
• A key person has special responsibility for a set amount of children. Parents and children will always know the name of their key person. This will be given to you at the start of your child’s first term.
AIM
• A key person will ensure that your child’s needs are recognised and met at each session.
THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE KEY PERSON ARE TO:
THE KEY PERSON'S MAIN DUTIES ARE:
DEFINITION
• A key person has special responsibility for a set amount of children. Parents and children will always know the name of their key person. This will be given to you at the start of your child’s first term.
AIM
• A key person will ensure that your child’s needs are recognised and met at each session.
THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE KEY PERSON ARE TO:
- Provide parents with information about their role.
- Provide a handover to second person when not available themselves.
- Aim to form a strong bond with the children in their group.
- Be actively involved in each child in their groups ‘settling in’ process, although they may not be the co-ordinator of this process they should be part of the process.
- Provide reassurance and comfort when children are in new situations or feeling unwell or anxious.
- Develop strong relationships and partnerships with parents and carers
- Be responsible for finding out about the child and continually up-date and review this information.
- Prepare next steps in each child's individual learning journey.
- Keep and write the developmental and progress records and plan times to share and exchange information with parents
- Regular information should be provided for parents about activities undertaken by the children, for example, through wall displays, photographs and examples of children’s work.
- Make contacts and involve other professionals when necessary.
THE KEY PERSON'S MAIN DUTIES ARE:
- To help your child settle at our setting.
- Talk with the parents about their child.
- Keeping an extra special eye open to how your child is settling during the first couple of sessions.
- Assisting the child to integrate into the setting if necessary.
- To provide emotional needs to your child if required.
- To make sure that the child’s race, culture, religion, language and family values are being met.
- To observe, keep records and monitor the child’s progress and talking and encouraging parents to participate in their child’s development.
- To feed back information that might be important to parents or any worries the key worker has come across.
- To continue to respect that the parent and child’s information is remaining confidential.
- To work in conjunction with the parents in a statutory and professional manner.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT A KEY PERSON DOES NOT:
- Shadow the children throughout the session.
- Only work with the key children they have been given.
- Prevent other adults from developing a relationship with the key children they have been given.