National Minimum Standards for Regulated Day Care - Open Access Play for children aged 5 years to 12 years: statutory guidance - Audience and overview
Standards of care open access play providers must meet to look after children age 5 years to 12 years.
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Standard 5: Promoting Children’s rights and well-being
Child’s Voice: I feel safe to be myself. Staff are there when I need them but let me play freely.
Well-being Outcome: Children experience warm, responsive relationships that nurture belonging, confidence, emotional well-being and resilience.
The registered person is responsible for ensuring that:
5.1 Staff have knowledge, understanding and advocate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), its implications for their work and their interaction with children supporting them to begin to understand their rights.
5.2 The setting’s policies and staff practice, promote warm relationships, security, self-esteem, independence and confidence for children in a responsive, nurturing atmosphere.
5.3 Communication is positive and encouraging and children are listened to. There is eye contact and generally communication is at the child’s level.
To assist providers, the principal regulatory requirements underpinning this standard are outlined below, followed by relevant guidance. Providers should note that neither list is exhaustive, and that providers must have regard to standards relevant to their service and the circumstances concerned.
Related Regulations
Further Guidance and Support
Children's rights in Wales | GOV.WALES
United Nations Convention on the Right of the Child: poster | GOV.WALES
Children's rights: Information for children | GOV.WALES
Convention on the Rights of the Child | OHCHR
NEST framework - An introduction to the NEST framework for improving mental health and wellbeing services for babies, children, young people and their families.
Trusted adults- NEST framework
Play Wales- Focus on play – How play supports children’s mental health