As Early Years care and education comes under closer outside scrutiny the number of practitioners moving into managerial roles is constantly increasing, this book focuses on how to make policy work in practice:clarifying the manager?s responsibilities and his or her duty to leadexploring the use of policy and procedures, why we have procedure, how to create procedures and how to put it into practiceoffering advice on effective planning, how to monitor progress and activity, and tips on feedback and reflectionproviding links to Ofsted.This is a must-have for students, assessors, nursery nurses with an interest in career development into management and anyone working within a early-years environment in a managerial role.