Abstract

As Early Years care and education comes under closer outside scrutiny the number of practitioners moving into managerial roles is constantly increasing, this book focuses on how to make policy work in practice: clarifying the manager’s responsibilities and his or her duty to lead exploring the use of policy and procedures, why we have procedure, how to create procedures and how to put it into practice offering advice on effective planning, how to monitor progress and activity, and tips on feedback and reflection providing links to Ofsted. This is a must-have for students, assessors, nursery nurses with an interest in career development into management and anyone working within a early-years environment in a managerial role.