Ensuring Safety in Childcare: Learning from Case Studies

Ensuring Safety in Childcare: Learning from Case Studies

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to identify failures of duty of care in childcare settings and discuss ways to overcome them.

What do you already know about duty of care in childcare settings?

Case Study 1: Playground Safety

Case study detailing a failure in playground supervision leading to an accident.

Discussion: Identifying Failures

Guided discussion on the identified failures in the playground safety case study.

Ways to Overcome Failure 1

Strategies to improve playground supervision and ensure child safety.

Case Study 2: Food Allergy Management

Case study illustrating a failure in managing a child's food allergy.

Discussion: Identifying Failures

Guided discussion on the identified failures in the food allergy management case study.

Ways to Overcome Failure 2

Strategies to improve food allergy management and ensure child safety.

Applying Learning

Scenario-based activity for students to propose solutions to hypothetical duty of care failures.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.