Michael is a male educator who recently joined child care center and completed his degree and began to work with babies. On the other hand, a family from an Islamic background joined child care center recently.The little girl from that family is in Michael’s care. Her father thinks that the men should be banned from changing nappies in the child care. The family believes that husbands and wives have their own priorities in regards to family. Men are responsible for providing for family through working and making an income and women are responsible for raising children and care for the house and daily household things. As parents, they do not think it is appropriate for Michael to change the nappies at the centre, which goes against their religious
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And promised the family to work in partnership with them and respect their beliefs and values. The National Quality Framework and the national Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) states to form ‘respectful, supportive, relationships with families (NQS Standard 6.1). Standard 6.2 requires educators, to support families and respect their beliefs and values. These requirements are based on Principle 2: Partnership with families and 4: Respect for diversity in the EYLF. Code of Ethics also explains that respect the uniqueness of each family and strive to learn about their culture, structure, lifestyle, custom, language and beliefs. The family wants the centre to keep a promise to accept their family request that Michael will not change nappies in the infants room, due to their religious and cultural beliefs. On the other hand, changing nappies is a part of a routine care in the infants room for an educator and an opportunity to spend one to one quality time with children to build safe, secure and supported relationships with the children (learning outcome 1.1 in EYLF) and duty of care. Every educator follows a nappy change procedure to change a child’s nappy …show more content…
The family has pointed out one of the topics from the Code of Ethics is “Support partnership with families and engage in shared decision making”(Code of Ethics, 2016). And now parents are questioning how the center can have a partnership with families, and educators and families have shared decision making, when they as a family disagree with a male educator changing nappies in the infants room. A male educator is responsible to meet child’s“bodily and emotional needs”(learning outcome-3, EYLF) under his care; as a female educator. Michael has a responsibility to act in ethical manner because he works with vulnerable, powerless and very young children.“Respect the rights of the children as enriched in the United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and commit to advocating for these Rights”(Code of Ethics,2016). When a child has a soiled nappy, it is an educator’s responsibility to take care of thebodily needs of the child. So Michael is advocating the baby girl’s need by changing her soiled nappy and it is his duty of care. The centre in which Michael works, promotes the employment of males as he has been employed as an early childhood educator and they understand the advantage of both genders being represented. Michael adheres with core values of his role, follows a code of ethics, abides by policies and guidelines and has principles of professional
And promised the family to work in partnership with them and respect their beliefs and values. The National Quality Framework and the national Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) states to form ‘respectful, supportive, relationships with families (NQS Standard 6.1). Standard 6.2 requires educators, to support families and respect their beliefs and values. These requirements are based on Principle 2: Partnership with families and 4: Respect for diversity in the EYLF. Code of Ethics also explains that respect the uniqueness of each family and strive to learn about their culture, structure, lifestyle, custom, language and beliefs. The family wants the centre to keep a promise to accept their family request that Michael will not change nappies in the infants room, due to their religious and cultural beliefs. On the other hand, changing nappies is a part of a routine care in the infants room for an educator and an opportunity to spend one to one quality time with children to build safe, secure and supported relationships with the children (learning outcome 1.1 in EYLF) and duty of care. Every educator follows a nappy change procedure to change a child’s nappy …show more content…
The family has pointed out one of the topics from the Code of Ethics is “Support partnership with families and engage in shared decision making”(Code of Ethics, 2016). And now parents are questioning how the center can have a partnership with families, and educators and families have shared decision making, when they as a family disagree with a male educator changing nappies in the infants room. A male educator is responsible to meet child’s“bodily and emotional needs”(learning outcome-3, EYLF) under his care; as a female educator. Michael has a responsibility to act in ethical manner because he works with vulnerable, powerless and very young children.“Respect the rights of the children as enriched in the United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and commit to advocating for these Rights”(Code of Ethics,2016). When a child has a soiled nappy, it is an educator’s responsibility to take care of thebodily needs of the child. So Michael is advocating the baby girl’s need by changing her soiled nappy and it is his duty of care. The centre in which Michael works, promotes the employment of males as he has been employed as an early childhood educator and they understand the advantage of both genders being represented. Michael adheres with core values of his role, follows a code of ethics, abides by policies and guidelines and has principles of professional