Social Child care and Voluntary Settings
The collaborative voluntary setting of social health care group in nursery requires certain qualities in order to qualify the standards of being a volunteer in nursery (Elfer 2015).
The group work of volunteering aims to work on the basis of building healthy relationships by following useful model such as Gerard Edgan’s Skilled Helper Model (Edgan 2018).
The group work of volunteering also projects out the issues and the conflicts during field practices.
It involves the practices of infinite patience and using creativity in order to keep the environment child friendly, following to which further evaluation are taken forward.
Edgan Skilled Helper model
The social group of child care services practices provide encouragement to the young children in order to make them active interpreters through various activities establishing new goals (Elfer 2015).
The assessments involves the development of knowledge and skills that are required to rectify or teach them favourable behavioral pattern (Edgan 2018).
The model helps to formulate action plan as per the students’ interest and inclination towards the things they like to do that leads.
Following their interest we develop a healthy therapeutic alliance between the child care providers and the children.
Group Work Approaches
The group work is assessed in a collaborative setting in which there is an involvement of social health care workers, and teachers along with few number of staff members for assistance.
The engagement of the group majorly lies in the course of developing arrangement and plan to lead the children under a well organized an system (Edgan 2018).
It involves goal setting, and promoting learning skills that would help the children learn new behaviors, and gain knowledge regarding the people, the environment and the surrounding.
The collaborative environment helps in enhancing the coordination skills and also develop the sense of cooperating with each other that preserves an ethical environment while practicing child care work and interview sessions (Elfer 2015)..
Working as a staff member within the group develops a high understanding towards the dynamic perceptual world of the children.
Ethical And Decision Making Paradigms
Shared motives and goals are encouraged among the practicing team members.
Ethical outlines are supposed to be put forward before proceeding with child care practices.
it is necessary to have infinite patience as children have wide spectrum of demands and curiosity and interests that needs to be facilitated in a proper way.
Furthermore, as volunteer of child care services, it is important to take active participation towards managing the entire room of children (Elfer 2015).
Passion is necessary in this field as it requires love and care in order to make children understand.
Punishment is not always an effective way to teach children.
Issues in Group Work Practices
There are high chances of facing ethical dilemma while making the decision.
As a child care social worker it is our duty to take care of the confidential reports of the details and the progress report of the children, unless there is an order by the higher authority to deliver the reports to the patient’s party. Following it, this protocol is often seen to be not followed properly that results them affecting their jobs (Elfer 2015).
Issues often emerges out of collaborative work environment where opinions contradicts among the experts
Volunteering policies in Nursery
The policies involve the ethical and justified ways of working with the children.
Only the volunteer workers or the nursery staffs are allowed to accompany children to the washroom at ay time.
Volunteers are required to participate school trips with greater sense of responsibility and active attention towards the children.
Students should be facilitated with adequate support during play time, and during the course of developing special skills.
Interactions with the parents should be thoroughly done as it is necessary to discuss regarding student progress reports and feedbacks of their performance (Elfer 2015).
Helping students learn safety rules and measures.
Child Protection Policy must be acknowledged and addressed as per the seriousness of the issues and concerns faced by a child.
References:
Body, G. and Kaur, N., 2016. Volunteering Policy. Governing, 2017.
Egan, G., 2018. The skilled helper: A client-centred approach. Cengage Learning EMEA.
Elfer, P., 2015. Emotional aspects of nursery policy and practice–progress and prospect. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 23(4), pp.497-511.
Singer, E., 2017. Child-care and the psychology of development (Vol. 12). Routledge.
Tizard, B., 2017. Varieties of residential nursery experience. In Routledge Revivals: Varieties of Residential Experience (1975) (pp. 102-121). Routledge.
