Reflection On Safeguarding Children

From the two years of working experience, I observed that this centre practices minimal multiagency partnerships due to the challenges that the management had faced in the past such as misunderstandings and the lack of funding. Thus, I wanted to get the practitioners to visualize beyond the obstacles (Gasper, 2010). I brainstormed (Appendix 2.1) this issue at the weekly meeting to analyze the possibilities that this franchised setting allows.
This led me thinking about the centre’s fire safety aspects because I could clearly vision it as a possible imposed change from my knowledge (Campbell-Barr and Leeson, 2016) on the ‘Safeguarding Children’. I thus researched on the policies to learn what the safest requirements of an early years setting were. Then, I prepared a fire safety checklist (Appendix 2.2) and learned that the setting needed intervention.
I planned for a meeting (Appendix 2.3.1) with aim of deciding the team that would be most motivated to improve this area with me. I discovered that I needed more evidences to convince the practitioners on the urgency of this issue (May, Ashford and Bottle, 2016). I wanted to equip myself with facts so that the practitioners will see the issue from my perspective. Thus, I started talking to some of my close staffs who were supportive and motivated towards change. From our casual …show more content…
I mentored a teacher on how to design a developmentally appropriate children’s quiz (Appendix 2.4.2) as she was doubtful (Garvey and Lancaster, 2010). The third idea suggested by my team was to conduct a presentation. However, during the group discussion with my lecturer, I was triggered to investigate the cause behind the lack fire safety practice in the setting. Unlike the first change, I then fixed an appointment with my principal to conduct an interview (Appendix