high quality day care

• High quality daycare includes the lowest childcare ratio possible with the best being 3 to 1 using well qualified and train, staff will experience and knowledge of child development
• The staff should be paid well, and should be responsive and sensitive to a child’s emotional needs
• melhuish several features of high quality care, including supervision that maintains consistency staff development that and ensure continuity stability, key worker learning about the child, links between key workers and mother, which can be seen by the child
• usefulness


  can provide an attachment that is not identical but is good enough to be beneficial

  the child learns that care and attention are stable and predictable features of the environment
• effectiveness


  while children who spend lots of time in nursery can be quite anti social this is reduced when the care is high quality
• practicality


  Having a key person create a more attachment friendly environment is each child is assigned a specific member of staff, whose job is to cultivate an attachment bond with a child and is the first point of contact for the parents