This Environmental Health Practitioner (EHP) manual is designed to ensure that at the end of the day, the EHP will:

• Understand the importance and practicalities of your role in the registration of ECD centres.
• Realise the contribution you can make to early childhood development in your municipality.
• Have a deeper understanding of the link between by-laws and Child Protection Legislations (Children’s Act).
• Have the ability to apply the required criteria for the Health Inspection Report in different contexts.
• Understand the importance of forming Child Protection Teams in districts and how linkages with Social Workers based in municipalities can play a facilitative role in the registration process.

Related Resources:

• Capacity Building for Social Workers – A toolkit for ECD centres and programmes assessment