Child Care Level 3 and Nutrition for Young Children Level 3

Child Care Level 3

Unit 1: Healthy Living

• What is a 'healthy lifestyle?'
• Exercise
• Healthy eating
• Activities for young children
• Wellbeing for children and their families

Unit 2: Child Care at Home

• Documentation required for a home child care business
• Intellectual development
• Supervision and travel to destinations away from the child care setting
• Good health and safety practices indoors and outdoors

Unit 3: Building Positive Relationships

• Current legal requirements
• Respecting and valuing individuality
• How to deal with conflict

Unit 4: Health Promotion and Development

• Types of foods that should be avoided
• Special dietary requirements
• Childhood chronic diseases and how they can affect development
• Government guidelines on food and nutrition

Unit 5: Administrative Procedures Within the Child Care Setting

• Data Protection Act
• Keeping accurate and up-to-date information
• Methods and systems for recording financial information
• Tax and VAT
• Storing data

Unit 6: Development and Learning

• Using ICT
• Safety concerns
• Literacy, language and communication
• Numeracy, reasoning skills and problem-solving
• Physical development
• Personal, social and emotional development
• Creative development

Nutrition for Young Children Level 3

Unit 1: The principles of a balanced diet

• What is nutrition?
• Nutrients in our food
• Macro-nutrients
• Micro-nutrients
• How much of each nutrient do children need?
• Estimated average requirement (EAR)
• Reference nutrient intake (RNI)
• Energy in versus energy out
• BMI

Unit 2: The special dietary needs of pregnant woman and children

• The nutritional requirements of pregnant women
• Weight gain in pregnancy
• Nutrition advice
• Supporting pregnant women
• The nutritional requirements of lactating women
• Breast versus formula milk
• The nutritional requirements for babies
• Weaning babies
• The nutritional requirements for toddlers
• What is a healthy balanced toddler diet?

Unit 3: How certain diets can affect health

• Food intolerance and dietary adequacy
• Types of food intolerance
• Allergies
• Coeliac disease
• Low income and dietary adequacy
• Popular diets in Britain influenced by religion and ethnicity
• Potential nutrition consequences
• Vegan and vegetarian diets

Unit 4: Contemporary food issues and their impact on diets

• Food additives
• Convenience food
• Fast food
• Cooking methods
• Salt and sugars
• Saturated fat