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Parents and children at your day care deserve the best possible care and attention. Supporting and representing each age group at day care should be the all important key worker. When necessary, the key worker communicates information pertaining to the children to staff and parents having already formed crucial relationships with both children and families. The emotional and physical health of the child, and the foundations for their overall development are supported thanks to this consistency and continuity of care.

Settling the child into day care with minimum stress is achieved through regular communication with the parents. The key worker absorbs every jot of information about the child/parent relationship in order that they may use that knowledge to ease the transition to day care. Development plans and progress reports for each individual child are also maintained by the key worker. These help chart the interests and behaviour of the child and any changes therein.

A major aspect of the role of key worker is to bridge the worlds of day care and home. The bond a key worker forms with a child, using knowledge gleaned from parents, helps provide the all important continuity of relationship. Other carers should also form relationships with the child to avoid separation anxiety should the key worker be absent.

If you have a key worker system in place at your day care you should develop a policy explaining how it works and include a summary in your parent/employee handbook. Being that key intermediary figure is an important role and involves incredible commitment and all staff should be made aware of same. The policy should ensure that all parties are aware of the benefits of this approach and what they can do in order to support the keyworker.