Basic care

• Provision of child’s physical, medical, optical, and dental care
• Provision of food and drink, warmth, shelter, clean and appropriate clothing
• Adequate personal hygiene

Ensuring safety

• Protection from harm and danger
• Protection from unsafe adults / other children
• Protection from self harm
• Recognising hazards

Emotional warmth

• Child’s positive sense of being valued and own racial and cultural identity
• Secure stable and affectionate relationship with adults
• Adults providing sensitive appropriate response
• Demonstration of warmth, praise and encouragement

Stimulation

• Provision of encouragement and cognitive stimulation
• Responding appropriately to a child’s language and questions
• Encouraging play and promoting educational opportunities
• Encouraging success and ensuring school attendance or equivalent opportunity

Guidance and boundaries

• Demonstrating and modelling appropriate behaviour towards the child
• Control of emotions and interactions with others
• Developing in the child an internal model of moral values and conscience
• Develop appropriate social behaviour
• Not being over protective regarding exploratory and learning experiences
• Boundaries to include social problem solving, anger management, consideration for others, effective discipline and shaping of behaviour

Stability

• Providing a stable family environment to ensure secure attachments and optimal development
• Ensuring consistency of emotional warmth to prevent disruption
• Adaptation by parent to child’s developmental progress
• Maintaining child’s contact with significant others

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