Child Day Care (Level 3) - A Home Study, Distance Learning Course

COURSE OVERVIEW

A distance learning course is the ideal way to gain a Child Day Care qualification. Whether you're looking to go on to further education, improve your job prospects or expand your knowledge, distance learning Child Day care is a flexible and convenient course, which allows you to comprehensively prepare for an exam or career through home study. What's more, because the distance learning Level 3 in Child Day Care course is a fully comprehensive course, no prior knowledge is required.

Helping children learn and gain new skills can be extremely rewarding coupled with this, Child Day Care workers often improve their own communication and personal skills by working with children. What is more, the Child Day Care work is never routine, with new activities and challenges everyday.

The Child Day Care Diploma Course has been specifically designed to assist you in either setting up your own Child Day Care centre or gaining employment in an existing centre. The course covers many of the fundamental concepts that need to be understood before one can embark on this career.

With the major shift in Child Day Care from unpaid care by relatives to paid Child Day Care carried out in dedicated centres, obtaining affordable, quality child day care is a major concern for many parents. That is why the Child Day Care Diploma is the ideal course to get you started in your new career as a Child Day Care centre owner/assistant.

Home Study Tutor Support

You will be provided with comprehensive materials designed to provide you with everything required to complete your Child Day Care course. You will have your own personal tutor helping you with your course work and with any questions you may have. Plus you can contact our Student Advisors by email or phone for all the practical advice you may need – so we really are with you 100%.

What's more, you'll have access to the online student portal, where you can interact with other students, browse our resource library and manage your account.

Course Assessments

The Child Day Care courseis marked through a process of continuous assessment guided by your tutor following NCFE guidelines. This means that your qualification will be awarded according to your performance on assessments rather than by taking an exam.

We send the full course out, you then read through the course in your own time and complete the assignments which you send to your tutor for marking. There is no word count for these assignments. However, one sentence answers will be rejected and you will have to re-submit it for marking.

Upon verification of the activities, exercises and assignments, a certificate of achievement will be awarded by the national awarding organisation NCFE, as confirmation that your written work has met all of the learning outcomes and assessment criteria for the programme.

Course Duration

We recommend you spend approximately 140 hours of your time studying for the Child Day Care course. The pace of study is completely up to you. To give an example, if you dedicate 3 hours a week to the course it would take you a year to complete but if you could spare 6 hours a week you could complete it in six months.

Get started today, and you can earn your Level 3 Award in Child Day Care in as little as six months, or take up to a year, if you prefer – the choice is yours.