Research Project

Childminders or Nursery!!!! 1
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 Table of Content
Introduction
Literature review
Action Plan
Research Question
Overview of findings
Reflection
Recommendations
References

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 Introduction

Child minders and Nurseries are service providers in order to take care of the
children on behalf of parents.

Their staff members are professionals and take effective care of the children.

Working parents having problems to take care of their children because after the
birth of their children they have to join their jobs back. In this situation they require
someone who takes care of their children.

In this situation child minders and nurseries came into action as they are
specialised in taking care of childrens.

Child minders are personal take carers whereas nurseries is professional place
where number of children are there and staff members are engaged into taking care
of these children.
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 Literature Review
Working parents having a concern related to the care of their children and this concern
results into sleepless nights.
While choosing the adequate option in order to bringing up the child it is very essential
to evaluate all available options in order to get adequate level of information related to
the option.
The available options make inclusion of stay-at-home parent, live-in nanny, informal
arrangements such as friends or relatives, child-minder or nursery.
Nursery:
These are care homes run by professional care service providers.
They run adequate size of batches for different age group in order to facilitate them
adequate level of services to fulfil needs and wants of children.
They attain specialised group of professionals in order to render adequate care to the
children and satisfy their parents by fulfilling the need and want of children.
Childminders:
Child-minders are such individuals who perform their activities at home only.
They render services to 3 or less children at a time under the age of 5 years. Child-
minders are flexible enough in order to provide effective care to the children.
They manage small size of batches in order to provide adequate care to the child.
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 Action plan: -
Activity Description Duration

A Topic selection and ground research 2 weeks

B Preparing documents and data collection 4 weeks

C Arranging data and analysis 4 weeks

D Data presentation 1 week

E Conclusion, recommendation and submission 2 weeks

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 Research questions
There are few questions need to be set in order to
get the adequate information with the help of
study such as: -

Is there is any difference in the service level

rendered by the child minders and nurseries?

Why nurseries environment is much

effective as compare to child minders?

Is the development of nurseries children is

much effective as compare to child minders
children?

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 Overview of findings

Parents are highly satisfied with the services rendered by the nurseries.
Parents have high confidence in the nurseries staff members because they hire
professionals in order to take care of children and perform their activities on large scale as
their batch size is much higher as compare to child-minders.
The staffs members of nurseries render them adequate knowledge such as how to behave,
how to respond, etc. These are basic learnings for the children and helps in their overall
growth.
There is adequate difference in the fees structure of nurseries and child minders.
The environment provided by the child minders is not effective as they take care of
children at home only where they didnt get much to learn.
There is no such difference are identified between the staff of both the service providers
(nurseries & child-minders).
The environment of these care providers put adequate impact over their behaviour because
they learn what they see at these areas.
Children get different learning at nursery premises through their staff members and other
children.
In child minders staff renders adequate learning to the children as per their experience.

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 Reflection

There is adequate level of difference among the service level rendered by the child
minders and nurseries.
Nurseries provide various toys to the children in order to play, due to number of children
available they learn to share things and many more.
But in child minders children get the limited toys to play which are available at their
houses, they didnt learn to share the things as there is no one present at their home
whom with they share their things.
The environment of nurseries is much effective as compare to child minders because
there are lots of children are present at a time at one place.
Children play together, share together and learn lots of things by remaining together.
The environment of nurseries helps them to make effective development during their
initial growth.
The development of nurseries children is much effective as compare to child minders
children due to the environment provided by them to their children.
In nurseries children get company of lot many childrens and learn various things
automatically.
On the other hand children grown under the care of child minders didnt get such
environment they are alone or two or three children at a time and didnt get much
opportunities in order to learn different things.
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 Recommendations
Parents need to take care of their children as much as they can otherwise some
negative feelings gets raised among them.
Before sending children to the nurseries parents need to evaluate the impact of
other children.
Parents need to evaluate the environment of the nurseries before sending their
children to them.
Parents need to examine the behaviour and activities of the child minders as
they provide their services at their homes in order to safeguard their children
as well as their house also.
Parents need to evaluate the available services of the child minders and the
nurseries before rendering their child to them. With the help of comparison
they select the adequate option in order to facilitate their children.
Except office timing parents must have to spend their most of time with their
children in order to make them feel valued and considered.
Parents need to evaluate the behaviour of children after they return from the
nurseries.

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