CACHE Level 3 Award in Preparing to Work in Home-based Childcare

This course assesses the following criteria:

Unit 1

• Understand current legislation and regulation in relation to home-based childcare
• Understand how to establish a safe and healthy home-based childcare environment for children
• Understand how to support the safeguarding, protection and welfare of children
• Understand how to promote equality, diversity and inclusion
• Understand how day to day care routines promote children’s well-being
• Understand how to work in partnership to support children’s outcomes
• Understand children’s learning and behaviour in relation to sequence, rate and stage of development
• Understand the value of play in promoting children’s learning and development
• Understand the role of observation in promoting children’s learning and development

Unit 2

• Understand how to lead and manage a home-based childcare setting
• Understand how to comply with financial and taxation requirements when setting up a home-based childcare setting
• Understand how to create a business plan
• Understand how to register with the appropriate regulatory body.

This course can be taken over a 12 month period but you can complete it as fast or as slowly as you wish.

To pass this course learners must pass 13 assignments. These are completed after navigating through the corresponding lessons and writing your answers to assignment questions. Once these have been read and marked by your personal tutor, feedback and marks are provided to students which contain helpful tips to improve work in future assignments.