Care4Kids prides itself on providing high quality, non-institutional child care and education by offering a highly trained and qualified carer. To the best of our ability Care4Kids is committed to providing a service that reflects the needs of children, their parents and the community. Our philosophy supports the various physical, economic, social, cultural and linguistically diverse families. We believe in developing each child the knowledge that they are unique and individual and that their abilities, interests and backgrounds are a very important contribution to the community.

Care4Kids offers a safe home environment, which supports the individual needs of families based on open communication and provides an ant-bias curriculum, which is challenging, stimulating and educationally sound for the children.

During the first 5 years, young children acquire values and attitudes towards themselves, their friends, families and society that grow with them into the future. This belief is met by our home providing a healthy, safe and loving environment, and the security necessary for the development of positive relationships in which all are listened to and respected.

I am highly motivated, loving, caring and qualified to care for your child. I will provide an atmosphere of friendliness and warmth. I aim to achieve this by having mutual respect for others. I myself will show leadership skills which are further enhanced through ongoing training in both personal and professional development.  

Open communication between families, children and the community are considered vital for the effective operation of our home-based care. This is achieved through 1:1 verbal contact with parents, written communication, regular newsletters, and special parent meetings. 

The Curriculum for Wales is unplanned and not predictable, rather it is spontaneous and negotiable. I believe that children learn through stimulating, challenging and creative play. I have realised through the Curriculum for Wales the impact we have on children’s lives, and how beneficial our interactions may be. “Children need time and personal space in which to grow.  They need time to be themselves – to do nothing, to stand and watch, to repeat what they did before – in short, they need time to live in their childhood rather than through it.  If we offer this, we teach rich and appropriate learning opportunities combined with enough time for them to enjoy and experience those opportunities to the fullest, we will be enhancing that era of childhood, not violating it.” (Hendrick 1998) 

We provide the basic needs of all children, in order to maintain comfort, hygiene and happiness. I achieve this by implementing a flexible daily routine, fostering independence within all children. Care4Kids Family Home Care provides a rotating menu plan catering for individual / cultural preferences, and may include foods from various countries. We believe it is vital that all children from receive the correct daily nutritional requirements in order to maintain healthy growth and development.

Care4Kids Family Home Care is committed to developing the capacities of each child within its care.  These capacities are taken to include those for cultural, emotional, physical, intellectual, communicative and social development.

In order to fulfil this commitment Care4Kids Home Care operation is based on the following principles:

• That the early childhood years are a unique and valuable stage of life and that each phase within this stage is important in its own right.
• That the wellbeing, uniqueness of and potential for each child is of fundamental importance, especially taking into account the critical impact of self-esteem on a child’s development.
• That children are entitled to safe, healthy environments that enhance their autonomy, initiative and self-worth.
• That children should not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, age, ability, race, religion, language, culture or national origin.
• That the worth of the cultural and linguistic diversity that children and their families bring to the centre is acknowledged and valued.
• That children learn through play and each child’s right to play is honoured in the acknowledgment of the major contribution play makes to child development.
• That the centre and staff respect and complement the special relationship between children and their families and incorporate this perspective in all interactions with children.

Our home care program is based on: -

• Sound knowledge of each child’s developmental capacity and interests.
• The enhancement of each child’s strengths, competencies, self-esteem, interests and emerging skills.
• The development of positive interactions for children, where they learn to balance their own rights, needs and feelings with those of others.
• Professional knowledge, research and theories.