The Role of the Key Person in the Early Years

What the course covers

This course helps early years practitioners understand the role of the key person in the early years, one of the most important relationships in a young child's life away from home.

• What the Key Person Is
• Why the Key Person Matters
• The Statutory Basis
• Attachment and Child Development
• Settling In and Transitions
• Building the Relationship With the Child
• Partnership With Parents
• The Key Person and Learning
• The Key Person and Wellbeing and Behaviour
• The Key Person and Safeguarding
• Challenges and How to Manage Them
• Embedding the Key Person Approach

What your team takes away

• 13 lessons, 65 to 80 minutes. Short enough to finish in a sitting without disrupting the working day.
• Built from current guidance and written for the role rather than the theory, so it can be applied straight away.
• Interactive throughout, with a multiple choice assessment at the end. A certificate carrying its own reference number is issued on passing, and it can be verified online at any time.

How it runs

The course opens in a browser on a phone, a tablet or a desktop, with nothing to install. Progress is saved as it goes, so someone can stop and pick it back up. The assessment sits at the end, and passing it issues a certificate with its own reference number that an inspector or an auditor can check.

Who it is for

Anyone working in Early Years, as part of CPD.

Early Years CPD