Provide a safe and healthy environment to prevent and reduce injuries and illness.

• What are the legal implications of providing care to children and what are the caregivers responsibilities.
• Identifying environment hazards and implications on safety of children.
• Strategies for preventing and/or correcting safety hazards in the environment are identified and implemented.
• Maintaining Health and Safety records
• Keeping accessible and accurate contact lists of emergency services and parent.
• Emergency plans, procedures and equipment are ensured to be available.
• Supervision of children is appropriate to their developmental level and the degree of potential risk involved.

Promote and maintain optimal health and nutrition for caregivers and children.

• Child health is monitored and instruments are correctly interpreted and integrated into practice.
• Awareness and implementation of Workplace Health Policies and Guidelines are explained in terms of maintaining staff health.
• Understanding common childhood diseases and appropriate course of action.
• Actions and communication responding to the holistic needs of children are dealt with in a non-discriminatory and confidential manner.
• Responses to injuries and emergencies are appropriate to the given situation and in line with emergency procedures and first aid practice.
• Records reflect up-to-date and accurate accounts of health history, regular checks and monitoring activities, medications, actions taken, accidents and incidents.
• Administration of medication.
• Identifying precautions.
• Providing nutritional feeds and providing nutritional advice.

Promote and protect the rights of children.

• Providing education on child rights
• Identifying violations of child rights.
• Monitoring of children.
• Educating parents on protection of children.

Manage routines and transitions.

• Creating a routine that is flexible and sensitive.
• Integrating routines
• Recording information on babies, toddlers and young children on a daily basis.