Legislation And Regulation Of The ECCE Setting

Legislation and regulation are set up to ensure the welfare of workers and it also help to create a more peaceful societies. It is a link to the question about why ECCE setting have to pay attention to the legislation and regulation. Paying attention to the legislation and regulation helps the ECCE setting to build up a good, safe and care environment. According to Department of Health 1991), legislation is crucial to promote ethical, safe, productive and effective wok practices in early childhood setting. Legislation and regulation will help to guide teachers to be more ethic. There had a lot of cases about the teachers were abusing the children in the ECCE setting. The online news that I found illustrated a male teacher had been jailed in

The Employment Equality Acts (1998 and 2004) had stated about there are nine grounds that are not allowed to discriminate, which is gender, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race /colour/ nationality / ethnic or national origins and membership of the traveller community. This Act is to forbid the discrimination in employment, the opportunity to access employment, to get training or experience and the classification of post. It is important for the ECCE setting to promote the equality between the employees due to treating everyone with equality is the crucial to build up a trust, love and care environment in the ECCE setting. A research of how does inequality affect the individual, society and the economy had did by THE EQUALITY TRUST (2012-2014), shows that a high- level of inequality will always associated with the lower level of happiness. Level of happiness are very important for the teachers or educators who work at ECCE setting. The teachers who with the low level of happiness will probably impact the emotional of the children as well. Most employers will increase the workload of the employees who paid by the higher salary. The employer may feel that due to the employee had received a lot of money from the company, then they should work more for the company. THE EQUALITY TRUST (2012-2014) also

The regulation of fire safety measures had mentioned about a person who running a pre-school service shall record down the all the fire drills which takes place in the pre-school and the fighting equipment and smoke alarm that in the pre-school. The Fire Safety Measures regulation stated parent and guardians are welcome to attend the service, and every persons who working in the pre-school as well. Having the fire safety measures in a pre-school is a must and compulsory. A lot of parents worry about their children’s safety while they are in pre-school even though the children are only spending four to five hours in the pre-school. The worries of the parents should be fully understanding by the ECCE setting due to there are a lot of cases that about the pre-school had attacked by the fire and the children get injured or dead in the cases nowadays. Having the good fire safety measure will prevent the children to get the serious injured if their pre-school is really attack by the fire. A news that written by T.S. Romney (2014) which about there are sixty to seventy children had successfully evacuated from their classroom when their pre-school caught fire. The reason that written in the news about why children had successfully evacuated is because the school did exactly what they had did during their fire drill and had the teachers and