Parent and professional can help children separately or they can work

together to the greater benefit of the children. (Anthony, 1990)

The practitioner to work in partnership with parents to support each individual child and no child should be excluded or disadvantaged because of ethnicity, culture or religion, home language, family background, special educational needs,

Disability, gender or ability. Parents and carers helping and being a part of the setting can also provide an opportunity for them to become a part of team.

A successful partnership with parents needs a two- way flow of information, knowledge and expertise. As practitioners you need to respect and understand the role of the parent, in their child’s education.

As a early years worker, you will need to be able to work with parents and carers, you need to listen and talk to them and understand how you can build a relationship between parent and child. Staffs need to listen to parent’

These are some of the way that parent can participate in organisation of the setting: - Asking parents to help the setting.

P5.The setting has planned activities, which is providing for the children to help support children’s learning and development. Early years worker needs to involve parent and share information in what is going on in the setting, Sharing the information may help parent to continued the activity at home and also knowing forthcoming activities will help prepare the child and also this allow the parent to talk to the child about what they have done and what they will be doing. When parent are involve at the setting, this gives the child reassurance and confidence to know that parent and early years worker are getting on well.

Effective communication with parents is talking and listening to parents. As early years worker you will needed to learn how to talk and listen to parents. Effective listening is the way in which you encourage someone to talk to you by showing that you are interested and truly understanding what they are saying this can be done by making eye contact and by nodding or smiling when appropriate. Early years worker needs to be friendly and acknowledge the importance of parent so that communication can be established. Once parents and carers have build up a relationship it makes it easier for both parties to bring up concern that may occur. Early years worker needs to speak clearly, making good eye contact with listener, this is important if you are talking

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