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
- Regulation 9: Registered person (general requirements).
- Regulation 20: Safeguarding and promotion of welfare.
- Regulation 22: Arrangements for the protection of children.
- Regulation 23: Behaviour management, discipline and restraint.
- Regulation 24: Health needs of children.
- Regulation 27: Staffing.
- Regulation 37: Fitness of premises.
Further guidance and support
- Children's rights in Wales.
- United Nations Convention on the Right of the Child: poster.
- Children's rights: Information for children.
- 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).