Why Is It Important To Ensure Accurate And Coherent Records

Accurate and coherent records must be correct, must be about the individual child’s interests planning this is important because it allows practitioner and professional to gather a picture of the child. All practitioners have duty to maintain a good clear written record of all concerns and actions regarding safeguarding and child protection issues for the children in their care. Practitioner must make sure all records are kept securely and locked at all time. All records should be readable so that other practitioner or professional can read and understand, also all the records must be up to date. Early Years Foundation Stage have said all setting must maintain records and share information with parents and carers, other professionals who is …show more content…
Observations support practitioners to decide where children are in their learning and development and to plan what to do. This is an important part of daily practice in any setting, regardless of the age of the baby or child. Looking, listening and noting are important because it helps the practitioner to get to know a child better and develop positive relationships with children and their parent. It also ensures the practitioner to make informed decision about the child’s progress and plan future steps to meet their development and learning needs. Good planning is the key to making children’s learning successful. It helps practitioners to build up knowledge about how individual children learn and make progress. There will be at a point when practitioner may need to share information with other practitioner because they the key practitioner is going away for some time so the practitioner will need to share information to maintain development of the key child. It is important that practitioner remain confident that the child’s personal information is kept safe and secure and the practitioners maintain the privacy rights of the individual whilst sharing information to deliver better