Managing children's challenging behaviours. ✅

Updated November 07, 2024 03:23

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A key objective of the National Quality Framework (NQF) is to ensure the safety, health and wellbeing of children attending education and care services. An important aspect of children’s ‘belonging, being and becoming’ involves them learning how their behaviours and actions affect themselves and others. A positive, strengths-based approach to guiding children’s behaviour can empower children to regulate their own behaviour and develop the skills needed to interact and negotiate complex social situations and relationships.

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Woodlands commit to:

Ensuring that all room learning environment areas designed to foster children’s learning and development that support children's ages, interests, and capabilities of all children.
Woodlands emerging Educational program contributes to the learning outcomes and is based on the interests, ability and experiences of each of the children and is sensitive to individual differences and is in collaboration with the family.
Educator and child relationships – ensure interactions between educators and children are meaningful, respectful, engaging, and supportive.
Consider the children’s environment – for instance, would the child’s behaviour be different if they were engaging in smaller group interactions, or in a quieter area, maybe even in an outdoor setting.
Consistency in care – children need reliable and consistent adults who keep them physically and emotionally safe and know their individual needs, to enable all children to develop the skills necessary to support their social wellbeing, self-regulation and emotionally resilient.
Educators work in partnership with families to ensure that experiences planned for children are meaningful and are supporting the child's interest and families goals.
Consider children’s behaviour in the context of their culture, their community, and their family and in relation to their individual stage of physical and intellectual development.
Ensure that the Educator to child ratios are adequate and meet the needs of the children at the service.
Educator and Leadership will maintain an open, patient, respectful, honest and reciprocal relationship between all parties and will have regular meetings to ensure the child's learning is being supported that the strategies are being reflected on.

Links to the National Quality Framework:

Quality Area 2	Children's health and safety	Standard 2.1	Each child’s health and physical activity is supported and promoted.
		Element 2.1.1	Each child’s wellbeing and comfort is provided for, including appropriate opportunities to meet each child’s need for sleep, rest and relaxation.
		Standard 2.2	Each child is protected.
		Element 2.2.1	At all times, reasonable precautions and adequate supervision ensure children are protected from harm and hazard.
Quality Area 5	Relationships with children	Element 5.2.2	Self-regulation, Each child is supported to regulate their own behaviour, respond appropriately to the behaviour of others and communicate effectively to resolve conflicts.
Quality Area 7	Governance and leadership.	Standard 7.1	Governance supports the operation of a quality service.
		Element 7.1.2	Systems are in place to manage risk and enable the effective management and operation of a quality service.

Links to the Child safe standards (CSS):

CSS 3	Children and young people are empowered about their rights, participate in decisions affecting them and are taken seriously	3.5	Organisations have strategies in place to develop a culture that facilitates participation and is responsive to the input of children and young people.
CSS 5	Equity is upheld and diverse needs respected in policy and practice	5.1	The organisation, including staff and volunteers, understands children and young people’s diverse circumstances, and provides support and responds to those who are vulnerable.
		5.3	The organisation pays particular attention to the needs of children and young people with disability, children and young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.