Planning a safe environment is a challenging process for early year’s practitioners. Child safety and protection is a key element in their development in early year setting. Planning of early year play setting every day is challenging and difficult process. Play environment should be a minimal risk and no danger for children. Arranging safe and friendly environment have to consider all the time for children to achieve maximum learning from each activity setup in the setting.

A child safe environment is including range of health and safety policies. Under OFSTED regulation early year setting need to know arrange challenging stimulate environment for all children. Practicing and applying health and safety regulations is an vital procedure for all the staff in the setting.

Basic information about creating a child safe environment:

• Check the fire exits before children enter the setting
• Leave a space around table for children to move free
• Staff interact with child easily
• Having comfortable and safe corner in the setting for children can sit or lie down
• Messy activity table are arrange for near washbasins and on suitable flooring
• Radiators and light should be kept clear to avoid fore hazard
• Free standing furniture must completely close
• Enough space for around physical activities
• The setting layout should help child interest
• Equipment and toys need to accessible for children.

A risk assessment procedure is help to identify risks in the setting. The deputy leader in the setting has to check and take the responsibility in regarding the risk assessment procedure in the setting. Checking hazard is important in the premises every day. Outdoor environment will help for children in the early years by:

• To get Fresh air, contact with nature and learn about weather seasons.

• Opportunities for learning about growing plants and gardening.

• Opportunities for wider range of physical activities in outdoor.

The outdoor environment is an essential part of high quality provision for babies and toddlers in the early age. Effective outdoor activity supports of delivery all development in the Early Years. These all challenging environment effect children personal, social, emotional and physical development in safe setting. In the earl year setting, the staff ratio is very important when considering the child safety. Correct staff ratios can minimize accidents and injuries in the setting and outdoor activities. Precise staff ratios for the settings are:

1:3 children under 2 years

1:4 children aged 2 years

1:8 children aged 3-5 years

Explain the role of the practitioner within a wider, multi-agency environment.

The point of wider and multi-agency environment is:

Multi-agency working provides benefits for children, young people and families because they receive tailor-made support in the most efficient way. It helps in early identification of any issues and intervention and easier or quicker access to services or expertise. Children and parents are addressed more appropriately and better quality services provided for longer-term or more specialist services. Also, this includes working parents, parents who speak English as an additional language, and parents who do not live in the family at home with their children.

Practitioners in early year setting need to respect which families working with them and how to support their child early year learning journey and development. Working with multi-agency environment the practitioners needed to understand that the home learning environment for each children in the setting. It is a way of working with the small children and those supportive experiences for parent and the childre