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Ten key points

Use these ten key points as possible starting points for discussion at meetings with staff or parents and carers. 1 Do you plan for children's personal, social and emotional development every week?

1 Do you plan for children's personal, social and emotional development every week?

2 Are practitioners always good models? By being polite, listening carefully, and being respectful of other people's views, practitioners can show children by example how to deal with difficult situations and conflicts.

3 Are children encouraged to become autonomous learners? It is important that they can access equipment when they need it to pursue their learning.

4 Does your setting help children to be assertive and make other people understand their feelings? In dealing with an incident where a child was hit by another, you could encourage the first child to say, 'It hurt me when you did that'.

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