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Can a 17 Year Old Look After a Child?

Thanks for your question. It sounds like you have a particular person in mind, and that they will be looking after one specific child. In...

Do Foreign Children Have a Right to A Classroom Assistant?

Being a foreign national child and speaking poor English can be very hard for children in UK primary schools and they have extra challenges to face....

How Do I Start my Career as a Family Support Worker?

Thanks for your question. Although you don’t say exactly what work with children you’ve been doing for the last six years, on the surface it sounds...

How to Run a Respite Care Programme?

Hello and thank you for your question. I'm sure you've already realised that, for such an important provision, respite care is woefully underfunded in the...

POCA: Implications for Instructors and Members?

Thanks for your question and concern about how your group is affected by the Protection of Children Act (POCA). Under the terms of the POCA, all...

Should Sports Studio Instructors be CRB Checked?

Today we hear more and more about people in positions of responsibility being CRB checked. To answer this specific question, it may first be helpful...

Start a Creche from Home?

There’s a lot of groundwork to cover in the early stages of setting up and starting a home crèche. A crèche is one of the forms of childcare services that has to be...