Partnership with Families Innovation Award sponsored by Child Paths 2021 2021 2021

Criteria

Marks

• Support all families to feel welcomed, valued and respected in the service, in all their diversity.
• Share information about the setting and the curriculum with parents.

25

• Share information about their child’s learning and development with parents.
• Help parents to support the child’s learning and development at home.
• The family should be fully involved in education and care for their child. Services should be designed in partnership with families and be based on trust and mutual respect. Parents and the setting should have common goals and clear two-way communication processes

25

• Consult with parents on their views and ideas, and act on them.
• Involve parents and support them to contribute to the setting to enrich children’s learning experiences.
• Ensures that from the start, children are asked for their views demonstrating a dialogue between children and adults based on reciprocal respect.
• Demonstrate that children’s views were listened to, considered, given due weight and given feedback on what happened to their views.

25

• The story should provide strong evidence that the innovation has enriched children’s learning experience.
• The themes from the Aistear Framework should underpin your story. However, it is not necessary to make direct links to the learning goals and aims

25

TOTAL

100

Opening date

19 April 2021

Closing date

31 May 2021

8 October 2021