Building positive, meaningful, and rewarding relationships with children, young people, and professionals is crucial in promoting the well-being of those whose needs we meet through delivering our primary task and those we work with to promote the welfare and well-being of children and young people.

• Explain what professional boundaries are and their importance. 
• To understand key skills and methods in communication
• How boundaries ensure we act in the best interests of the children and young people.
• How boundaries Help to provide consistency, predictability, and security in the relationship.
• How boundaries Help to promote transparency and clarity and to avoid confusing ambiguity.
• How can emotional boundaries be healthy and helpful or unhealthy?
• How boundaries help the person being assisted assess how safe the relationship is for them.
• Under Involved, Over Involved and zones of helpfulness 
• Boundary “holding” and authentic warmth