Explain How Children and Young People’s Development Is Influenced by a Range of Personal Factors

Explain how children and young people’s development is influenced by a range of personal factors

There are different personal issues that a child or a young person can develop such as health complications, sensory impairment, disability or learning difficulties.

Even before birth a child needs to reach many milestones. In some cases there can be a delay in   development and this can be out of the child’s or parents control.

A child with learning problems may be years behind their peers in their development. This would have an impact on what they can do on a day to day basis including physical skills, social skills and intellectual skills.
Other personal factors that can influence a child are their home life, such as death of a family member, parents divorcing or even a change in familiarity like moving home. Some parents can also have inadequate parent skills and become bad role models.

All these factors and many more can have a great impact on a child or young persons life. Each responsible parent or carer needs to recognise any issues that child may have and seek help to assist them into having a normal, happy life.
b. Explain how children and young people’s development is influenced by a range of external factors

There are different issues that a child or a young person can develop from a range of external situations. These can have an impact on a child’s social, emotional, mental or physical development.

Some of these factors can include poverty and deprivation. This can be a major issue as children with unemployed parents, with financial problems, can cause stress on the family. The child can not participate in any hobbies and miss out on eating healthy nutritional food, which helps brain development, as unhealthy processed food is much cheaper. Not helping them with their education by not encouraging reading or not leasing with teachers regularly. Sometimes this can encourage a young person to leave school before they finish their...