Promoting the Health and Hygiene of Children

This resource looks at the Health and Hygiene of Children in group settings, and considers the vital part you can play to support these objectives. Learn to promote children’s hygiene by: being a good role model and encouraging children to develop good personal hygiene; identifying hazards and dealing with waste; knowing about the basics of food hygiene.

Help children to be healthy by: having an awareness of what constitutes a healthy balanced diet and understanding needs for rest, sleep and exercise; knowing how to recognise when children are ill and dealing with accidents and emergencies; following reporting and recording procedures.

Consultant: Carolyn Meggitt BA (Hons) SRN SCM NDNCert

Peer Review: The Daycare Trust

Standards:

National Standard 7 & 8 and new NOS Unit CCLD202

Subjects covered include:

Promoting Child Hygiene • Being a Good Role Model • Encouraging Good Personal Hygiene • Identifying Hazards • Dealing with Waste • The Principles of Food Hygiene • Promoting Child Health • A Healthy and Balanced Diet • Rest and Sleep • Exercise • Recognising Illness • Giving Medication • Following Reporting and Recording Procedures

Supporting Material:

An accompanying CD-ROM contains a Training Pack, which includes a Lesson Plan, 6 group and/or individual exercises and discussions and 3 handouts. The CD-ROM also contains Question and Answer sheets a Trainer’s Guide and other supporting materials, all designed to help you prepare and run an effective training session.

Duration:

27 minute DVD/video in 13 sections to be used in a suggested 2 hour training session.