Subject: Child Health and Wellbeing

Title: ‘Child protection and the health and safety requirements for children in an Early Years setting in Ireland today’

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Question 1: Aim, Objective and Rationale for Child Health and Wellbeing?

Question 2: Provide an overview of the legislation governing an Early Years setting with consideration to each of the following:

• The Childcare Act 1991 (Early Years Services) Regulations 2016
• The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
• Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005
• Children First (2015)
• Tusla’s Quality Regulatory Framework, Aistear and Siolta.

Question 3: Explain how the spread of infection can be controlled in an early years’ setting?

Question 4: Outline the role of childcare practitioners in protecting children from abuse.

Question 5: Carry out an audit of a child’s daily routine and outline how a child’s right to have a say in all matters that affect them is currently being implemented.

Question 6: Explain how this right could be better implemented within the daily routines, with reference to child health and safety?

Question 7: Explain what is meant by a balanced diet using the Food Pyramid as a reference?

Question 8: Outline and explain what is meant by a healthy eating policy (Food and Nutrition Guidelines for Pre-School Services (DoHC 2004)?

Question 9: Explain how play, relationships and the implementation of Article 12 (UNCRC) influences a child’s wellbeing?

Question 10: Discuss what you have learned from the Project?

Question 11: Make at least three recommendations. Provide suggestions to promote children`s protection, health, hygiene, and nutrition in the Early Years setting.