What are the primary activities of a childcare business in an 'acedemic business' sense?

[KatyMac]

For my course work??

I wondered about:
1 Stay Safe - Developing the safety of the children
2 Be Healthy - Developing the health of the children
3 Enjoy & Achieve - Increasing the enjoyment and achievement of the children
4 Make a positive contribution - Enabling the children to make a positive contribution
5 Achieve Economic Wellbeing - ???

Or is that daft?

Sounds good to me

Really I wondered if I was reaching a bit far

esp as I can't find something for 5

5 for you as a proprietor

And the local community - as if you didn't provide childcare, parents couldn't go to work, so local community economy would suffer.

Good point

No 5- Providing early intervention for children so that they can achieve success at school and not fall into the povery trap as adults, thus breaking the cycle of deprivation.

Thanks PP

Do you want to hold my hand with this one? I'm a bit

Sure, how much have you got left?

All of it

I have to look at threats to to my main business activities in therms of

Social
Technological
Economic
Natural
Political

for each I need:
Information needed:

Trends:

Impacts on organisation:

So I thought I do childcare & marketing but the lecturer said no I need at least 5

Am I heading in the right direction do you think?

Gosh, a bit heavy for a Sunday morning
What you have said sounds good to me.
So, you are looking at your main busines activities as
childcare
marketing
Is that right?
And you need at least 3 more?

Well I was then I wondered if my main areas were the 5 ECM?

Making sure that your children meet the ECM outcomes is your main business activity, I suppose.
I can see where you are going with this one now.
With the change in government and the spending cuts you will have lots of threats to your business, so plenty to write about there.

Maybe but stay safe is about HASAW & Food hygiene regs

& be healthy is about making up bottles & food hygiene & HASAW

or is that daft?

No, not daft.
Being safe is also about safeguarding too. There are plenty of threats there.
Changes to CRB and the vetting and barring scheme.
Use of mobiles and cameras by you, staff and visitors and while you are out and about.
Being healthy is also about healthy eating and stopping the rise in obesity.
The cuts to local services will affect all of the outcomes of ECM.

E & A is about education

But +ve contribution is that more about social mores equal ops?

& economic is that about birth rates & reducing CB & WTC??

Yes, CB and WCT cuts will affect your business, if numbers fall because parents can't afford to use a childminder. It will be cheaper for them to stay at home. But that will have a knock-on effect if children are not receiving the early support that is crucial to achieve the aims of ECM.
Making a positive contribution is about inclusion, yes, and being valued as a member of society.
Including children in your setting who have additional needs is possible because you have the training, resources and support from local services to do so. What would happen if services such as the area senco, children's centres, hvs, etc were to withdraw their support. That would affect your ability to enable children to make a positive contribution.

Massively massively confusing