Partnership with Families Innovation Award

What comes first – relationship or partnership? Can you have one without the other in Early Learning and Care settings? Our vision for this award is to illustrate the realities of partnership with families amongst the settings that excel in this rewarding yet often challenging world of partnership. True vision comes when challenges need to be overcome.

The prerequisite for quality partnership with families is a confident, knowledgeable, understanding pedagogue who offers meaningful opportunities for partnership and enjoys sharing children’s experiences and learning with their families. Working with reciprocal families can feed and fulfil you professionally. The stresses and realities of everyday life can make partnership challenging at times. Wonderful anecdotes of practice that supports all types of families throughout the good and bad times abound within the sector. Early Childhood Ireland aims to make that more visible.