The transition from home to an early years setting can be difficult for parents and children, and many settings find that a policy of home visiting helps greatly in the settling process, enhancing the relationship between the setting and the home, and so benefiting both the child and you, the practitioner.
Meeting practitioners for the first time on their home territory, where they feel secure, is reassuring for children. It is not uncommon for children to comment happily at a later date, 'You came round my house!'
Visits can also provide practitioners with invaluable background information, enabling them to respond sensitively and appropriately to questions and situations concerning family life once the child is at the setting.
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