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Early years practitioners have a duty to keep children safe in early years settings and to minimise risk of harm in all situations. However, children instinctively want to be able to take risks so that they can test their abilities and strengths, and this is a crucial part of their learning and development.
In many ways, the early years setting is the ideal environment for children to test themselves. Practitioners will already have considered hazards that young children do not readily identify as dangerous, and will provide well-managed opportunities for appropriate ‘risk taking’, for example, climbing to the top of a frame.
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