CYPOP1: 3.1.
The system of a key worker in the setting is based on the principles of the attachment theory. The key person responds sensitively to the child’s demands and regularly engages in playful interactions. The child will become fond of their key person, and will prefer to be with them other than other practitioners, and will often refuse to go with any other practitioners. The key person has a big impact on all areas of a child’s wellbeing, learning and development. For babies and young people to feel happy, settled and secure, they need to make an emotional attachment with other adults to care for them when their parents aren’t there, such as practitioners. When adults spend extended periods of time with children, by interacting with …show more content…
This is extremely important if they will be leaving the care and safety of any people that they have formed a strong attachment with and entering an environment that they are not familiar with. Within settings, this means that babies and young children should be introduced to their key worker and the setting gradually before attending full sessions. On-going emotional distress can be caused if transitions are not effectively managed. Babies and young children will also show distress by, changed in their appetite, they may become less or hungrier than usual. Also they can show this by them having sleeping difficulties, and difficulties getting along with other children, and show signs of bullying behaviour. If children are usually dry, and clean during the night/day, and they are wetting or soiling during this, then this is another sign of …show more content…
Their daily sleep varies from 8 hours up to 18 hours a day. Babies wake up during the night for a feed, and being too hot/too cold can also disturb their sleep. At 3-6months old, babies will need less feeds throughout the night and are able to sleep for longer at night time. Some will sleep for 8 hours or longer at night, and by 4 months old, they could spend twice as long sleeping through the night, as the day time. At 6-12 months, night feeds should no longer be necessary, and some will sleep for 12 hours at night. When they are teething, this will disturb their sleep and also hunger may wake them at night. When babies are 1 years old, they will sleep for around 12-15 hours in