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SCMA Childminders: Parental Involvement
This badge is awarded to childminders who can demonstrate their understanding on the importance of parental involvement in delivering a quality childminding service.
This badge is awarded to childminders who can demonstrate their understanding on the importance of parental involvement in delivering a quality childminding service. Particularly around key aspects such as:
- Understanding the background relating to the current focus on parental involvement.
- Defining the benefits of parental involvement.
- An awareness and understanding of barriers to parental involvement and seeking practical solutions to those barriers.
- An understanding on how to establish meaningful ways of involving parents in a childminding service.
To earn this badge you will need to:
- have completed the SCMA Parental Involvement CPL workshop or completed the Parental Involvement eLearning programme
Tell us the following:
- What is your understanding of the importance of parental involvement and current best practice?
- Explain the benefits and barriers to parental involvement and give examples on how to seek practical solutions to those barriers
- Tell us how you will use what you have learnt on the course to improve and develop your practice and establish meaningful relationships with parent
None. This badge does not require you to hold any other badges.
Provide a statement, of around 200 words, telling us why you meet the criteria for this badge. Read the criteria carefully before submitting your statement, as your application will be declined if you don’t cover all of it within your evidence. Submit your statement using the badge application form below.
Use each point from the badge criteria as a heading. This will help you structure your evidence. Write something for each point in the criteria eg if you are asked to work through a learning resource, you might say “I worked through the resource for half-an-hour each day between Monday 1 April and Friday 5 April and spoke to another childminder or professional about my responses to the exercises within it”. Stick to the criteria and don’t mention anything that isn’t relevant to it.
Remember, the evidence you provide will be viewable by anyone who you show your badge to. Please don’t include confidential or private information within your evidence.
Badge issuer
Scottish Childminding Association
The Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA) is the only organisation dedicated to supporting childminders in Scotland. Our aim is to promote childminding as a quality childcare service. We do this in part by helping SCMA childminders to be the best they can be.
Submit your application
The SCMA Open Badge system relies on trust. We trust that the evidence you provide will be of your own work and based on your own skills and knowledge. By submitting an application you agree to the following statement: “In studying and completing the activities for this badge, I confirm that all the work provided as evidence will be my own.” The SCMA will revoke a badge if the evidence provided is discovered to have been the work of someone else.
Your evidence, name, and email address will be sent to the organisation who issue this badge