KEY PERSON POLICY
The Key Person ensures that within the day to day demands of the setting, each child for whom they have special responsibility feels individual, cherished and thought about by someone in particular while they are away from home.
Practitioners Responsibilities – Relationships with Key Children
• The key person provides a secure attachment for their key children whilst in the Pre-School setting.
• The Key person help their children settle in and become familiar with the environment.
• The Key person meets the needs of their key children by responding sensitively to their feelings, ideas and behavior.
• The Key person provides a ‘secure base’ for the children by being there to support them and allowing them to explore at their own pace.
• Key persons are responsible for building relationships with parents/carers.
• Key persons should ensure that their children are cared for appropriately within Pre-School by accommodating their individual needs within the daily routine.
• The Key person needs to develop a two way flow of information between themselves and the parent/carer to help them become aware of any significant aspects of family life that maybe important to the child.
• The Key person has responsibility for sharing their key children’s development profiles with parents and other professionals as required, in cases of children with additional needs or identified children in need they will be called upon to attend reviews and core group meetings with the support of a senior manager.
Records
• The Key person is responsible for observational records of their key children, using these to inform next steps, individualized planning, IEP’s and completing development profiles for each of their children.
• Where a child is supported by another member of staff who is not their key person eg. SEN support record keeping them becomes a joint responsibility.
