Good communication skills are at the heart of quality provision of the Early Years Foundation Stage because practitioners must understand the needs and interests of individual children in order to plan and deliver truly child-led activities.
The new statutory framework places a heavy emphasis on communicating with children and their parents. It is a two-way process and practitioners do not only need to be articulate and adept at explaining their policies and procedures, but must also be able to comprehend what parents and children are telling them.
'The EYFS is child-centred, and that means giving the child control,' says Anna Hanks, managing director of Acorn Childcare Training. 'It means listening to the child, hearing what the child wants and not making assumptions about what you think the child wants.
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