Child key question

Question 1

AO1 - What is daycare?

Answer 1

Care provided to a child by someone other than a parent, usually in the form of a day nursery

Question 2

AO2 - What is the correct ratio for children under 2 to members of staff and why is this good?

Answer 2

3:1 so they can provide enough attention and cognitive stimulation?

Question 3

AO2 - What is a key worker and why are they neeeded?

Answer 3

The named member of staff responsible for the wellbeing of specific students who they are to attach to

Question 4

AO2 - What level of qualification do nursery staff need to be classed as ‘good quality’ in Campbell?

Answer 4

at least Level 2 so that they’re trained in proper methods of childcare and cognitive stimulation

Question 5

AO2 - Why is low staff turnover good for children?

Answer 5

It lets children form attachments and the children to understand the children better

Question 6

AO2- What are the benefits of daycare?

Answer 6

Improved confidence, possibly improved cognition/language, more sociable (or understand social rules e.g. sharing)

Question 7

AO2 - What are the drawbacks of daycare?

Answer 7

Effects attachment style, makes children more aggressive

Question 8

AO3 - What did EPPE/Sylva (2004) find about disadvantage background?

Answer 8

Daycare was more important/effective for these children

Question 9

AO3 - What did EPPE/Sylva (2004) find about hours in daycare?

Answer 9

Part-time provides no significant difference to children than full-time

Question 10

AO3 - What did Andresson find about daycare?

Answer 10

children who went to high quality day care before the age of one were more socially and cognitively advanced by the age of 8.

Question 11

AO3 - What did Li find out about Daycare?

Answer 11

Children in high quality daycare improved their academic abilities, memory abilities and language abilities

Question 12

AO3 - What did Belsky and Rovine find about daycare?

Answer 12

that children who were put into day care for 20 hours a week, before they were one, had an insecure avoidant attachment

Question 13

AO3 - What did Campbell find out about daycare hours?

Answer 13

Children who spent long days in day care (e.g. from 8am to 6pm) under age 3 were less socially competent. Children who spent more days in day care, but shorter days, were more socially competent

Question 14

AO3 - What did Clarke & Stewart find about daycare?

Answer 14

Children who had attended nurseries could cope better in social situations, and were able to interact better with peers, compared with children previously looked after in family settings. They also found it didn’t effect attachment style

Question 15

AO3 - What did Sammons find about daycare?

Answer 15

Analysed data and showed that there is a slight risk of antisocial behaviour when children spend more than 20 hours per week in nurseries.

Question 16

AO3 - What did DiLalla find about daycare?

Answer 16

negative correlation between the amount of time spent in day care and pro-social behaviour

Question 17

AO3 - What did Shea find about daycare?

Answer 17

Children became more sociable the longer they were in day care

Question 18

AO3 - What did EPPE find about cognitive and social development?

Answer 18

high quality day care benefitted cognitively and socially and they showed more independence

Question 19

AO3 - What did Pennebaker find about daycare?

Answer 19

Shy children do less well in daycare settings and will receive less benefits

Question 20

AO3 - What did ALSPAC show about daycare?

Answer 20

Looking at 14,000 children daycare had no impact on antisocial behaviour or aggression

Question 21

AO3 - What did Tizard find about daycare?

Answer 21

It had less cognitive benefits than being at home due to greater attention and enrichment in conversations from mothers

Question 22

AO3 - What did the NICHD find about daycare?

Answer 22

Children in daycare had more aggression and 3 times the amount of temper tantrums

Question 23

AO1 - why do parents sent their child to day care?

Answer 23

To allow them to go back to work after the birth?

Question 24

AO1 - what is the average monthly cost of day care?

Answer 24

£945 per month for 35 hours a week