Rose Buddies Childcare recognise that qualifications and training make an important contribution to the quality of the care and education provided by our early years settings. As part of our commitment to quality, we offer placements to students undertaking early year’s qualifications and training. We also offer placements for school pupils on work experience.

 

We aim for students on placement with us to gain knowledge, experience and best practice guidance on high quality practice that will contribute to the successful completion of their studies and their future employment opportunities.

 

• We require students on qualification courses to meet the ‘suitable person’ requirements of Ofsted and have DBS checks carried out.

• We require schools placing students under the age of 17 years with the setting to vouch for their good character.

• We supervise students under the age of 17 years at all times and do not allow them to have unsupervised access to children.

• Students who are placed in our setting on a short-term basis are not counted in our staffing ratio and not allowed unsupervised access.

• Trainee staff employed by the setting may be included in the ratios if they are deemed competent.

• We take out employers’ liability insurance and public liability insurance, which covers both trainees and voluntary helpers.

• We provide students, at their first session of their placement, with a short induction on how our setting is managed, how our sessions are organised and our policies and procedures.

• We require students to sign agreement to all of our policies and procedures

• We co-operate with students’ tutors in order to help students to fulfil the requirements of their course of study.

• We communicate a positive message to students about the value of qualifications and training.

• We make the needs of the children paramount by not admitting students in numbers that hinder the essential work of the setting.

• We ensure that trainees and students placed with us are engaged in bona fide early years training, which provides the necessary background understanding of children’s development and activities.