While daily care routines for babies and young children are crucial to maintaining their health and safety, they are also the best way to help children learn life skills by promoting language, social awareness and self-confidence.
Daycare practice has changed considerably in recent times and the role of the key worker has been emphasised as central to achieving the best outcomes for children and parents. Meanwhile, the Government's Every Child Matters policy has heralded many changes, including those to the Ofsted inspection process for registered daycare. Inspectors are now focusing much more on what it feels like to be a child in daycare and how the individual needs of children are respected and promoted.
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