Bizzie Lizzies believes that for children to receive quality care and early learning that suits their individual needs, parents and staff need to work together in a close partnership. We recognise that parents/careers play the fundamental role in a child’s development as their first educators of their young children and our aim is always to support their role.

 

The two-way sharing of information is key to this. The nursery team welcomes parents as partners and this relationship needs to be built on trust and understanding. It is important that we, as practitioners, can support parents in an open and sensitive manner.

 

The nursery wishes to ensure parents are an integral part of the care and early learning team within the nursery.

 

Our policy is to:

 

• Recognise and support parents as their child’s first and most important educators, and to welcome them into the life of the nursery.
   

• Ensure all parents are signed up to our online learning journey “Famly” app, where parents can log on and see their children’s development in real time as soon as they are uploaded
   

• Ensure nursery documentation and communications can be easily adapted to a format to suit individual parent’s needs, e.g., Braille, multi-lingual, electronic communications.
   

• Ensure that all parents are aware of the nursery’s policies and procedures
   

• Maintain regular contact with parents to help us to build a secure and beneficial working relationship for their children
   

• Operate a key person system to enable a close working relationship with all parents
   

• Support two-way information sharing regarding each child’s individual needs both in nursery and at home
   

• Inform parents on a regular basis about their child’s planning and progress and involve them in the shared record keeping
   

• Consider and discuss all suggestions from parents concerning the care and early learning of their child and nursery operation
   

• Provide a written contract between the parent(s) and the nursery regarding conditions of acceptance and arrangements for payment and funding
   

• Respect the family’s religious and cultural backgrounds and beliefs and to accommodate any special requirements wherever possible and practical to do so
   

• Find out the needs and expectations of parents. These will be obtained through regular feedback via questionnaires, suggestion system and encouraging parents to review working practices. These are then evaluated by the nursery to promote nursery practice, policy, and staff development