Cypcore 3.7

Children and young people

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By Aimee Askham

CONTENTS: The 5 outcomes: pages 1-2 Services available for your child page 2 Decisions that affect your child’s life pages 3 Supporting decisions page 5

THE FIVE OUTCOMES: BE HEALTHY STAY SAFE ENJOY AND ACHIEVE MAKE A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION ACHIEVE ECONOMIC WELL-BEING
How do practitioners promote these to my child?
All practitioners have a duty to promote these 5 ECM (every child matters) outcomes and to support your child or young person to achieve them. Here is how they do it
Be healthy. Practitioners promote this by always having healthy snacks and lunch and only offering milk or water as a drink unless you ask differently! They also promote healthy eating by allowing the children to play with and examine all the different healthy foods and having bright colourful posters up all around the building about being healthy.
Stay safe. This is promoted by safeguarding. All staff are trained to notice things that might not be quite right and then will do everything they can to make it right.
Enjoy and achieve, this is promoted by setting standards for the learning, development and care young children receive whilst in the setting, every child must make progress and no child is to be left behind.
Making a positive contribution, practitioners promote this by ensuring every child is feeling confident and secure enough to be showing their work off and to be happy enough with the way their life is going.
Achieve economic well-being
We ensure every child has the same opportunities as another, we also ensure every child has access to transport and other materials they may need. Services available for 0-16 year olds Youth clubs Baby and toddler groups Family groups Schools Play centres Brownies Scouts Cubs Swimming pools Libraries Sure start Out of school clubs Parks

In order for us to meet the ECM outcomes we have to make sure these services are child/young person centred. For us to be able to do this we have to meet the needs of every child or young person. EXAMPLE: if a child/young person needs disability ramps we would have them put in to ensure that child has the same opportunity as a child who doesn’t need a ramp.

Decisions that affect children and young people’s lives

Some of the decisions that affect children and young people’s lives can also affect your life. Here are a few examples of decisions your child/young person will make that could affect their life: Deciding to take drugs or drink alcohol Having unprotected sex Breaking the law Not going to school Getting into the wrong crowd
Although these are all bad choices there are also a few good choices that could affect their lives such as Applying themselves to their school work Eating healthily Doing positive out of school activities such as dance or football Staying physically fit

Supporting your child or young person’s decisions

Children need to be able to make decisions to stand up to peer pressure, to keep themselves safe and to think carefully before smoking, drinking or taking drugs. Whatever their decision it is important we support it as they need to be able to learn from their mistakes, however if the decision is something that could seriously harm them it is your place to support them into making the RIGHT decision.