every child matters

For those of you who need an introduction, here in the UK all childcare services - be they schools, local authorities, child centres, hospitals, nurseries, social services or childminders (like myself) - are now deeply immersed in the Every Child Matters framework. It started back in 2003, following the terrible case of Victoria Climbié, to ensure that no child fell through the holes in the services. As a strategy it has five aims, around which much of childcare and schooling is now being focused; you can browse this site for play ideas or reviews tagged with these aims.:

be healthy - stay safe - enjoy and achieve - make a positive contribution - achieve economic wellbeing

One of the founding principles of welikeplay.org was to provide ideas for play-professionals within such a framework, though it naturally lends itself to a rigorous approach to thinking about play in all its effervescence of activity.

We at welikeplay HQ hope this helps out. Do leave a comment here if this is useful to your setting, or you’d like to share good resources (I’m looking into How to Achieve the Every Child Matters Standards, though it’s school and child centre, rather than childminder focused).

If there is anything we can do to help out, let us know.

Brian

tag... play, be healthy, be helpful, enjoy and achieve, money matters, philosophising, stay safe