Child Care and Special Educational Needs (Level 3) Bundle

Course Structure

Complete Child Care

UNIT 1: The Development of Children from Birth to Sixteen years

• The development of children from birth through to sixteen years

UNIT 2: Parenting and Family Values

• Family Life and how it has changed
• The different styles of parenting
• Exploring feelings and emotions
• A guide to social skills and manners

UNIT 3: Keeping Children Safe indoors and Outdoors

• Maintaining safety within the home
• Maintaining safety in the garden
• Child safety when on the move
• Maintaining appropriate hygiene procedures

UNIT 4: Child Protection

• Types, signs and symptoms of child abuse
• Helping children to protect themselves against abuse
• Procedures to follow in cases of child abuse
• Caring for children who have suffered abuse

UNIT 5: Tackling Bullying

• An overview of the bully
• An overview of the victim
• Recognising the different types of bullying
• Understanding why bullying happens
• Dealing with incidents of bullying

UNIT 6: Early Childhood Education

• Personal, social and emotional development
• Communication, language and literacy development
• Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy
• Knowledge and understanding of the world
• Physical development
• Creative development

UNIT 7: Diet, Nutrition and Exercise

• The principles of nutrition
• The principles of exercise
• Meal planning
• Allergies and intolerances
• Catering for different diets

UNIT 8: Working with disabled Children and their Families

• Understanding disabilities in children
• Definitions of impairment and disability
• Inclusion of children with disabilities
• Providing play and learning activities for disabled children
• Working with families of disabled children

UNIT 9: Children's Right and Anti-Discriminatory Practice

• Exploring children’s rights
• Exploring anti-discriminatory practice
• Exploring the effects of discrimination

UNIT 10: Working in Partnership with Parents

• Exploring the different types of families
• Working together to provide for children’s development and well being
• Communication between the childcare practitioner, parents and school

Special Educational Needs

Unit 1: Child and young person’s development

This unit will begin to address learning outcome 1. This learning outcome will be divided into a set of activities to guide your studies. In this unit you will explore the expected pattern of children and young people’s development from birth to 19 years and how the different areas of development can affect one another.

Unit 2: The support of disabled children and young people and those with specific requirements

This unit will focus on learning outcome 2. This unit will be divided into a set of activities to guide your studies. In this unit you will research how you as a practitioner can support disabled children or young people and those with specific needs in partnership with their parents/carers. You will also research partnership working with other agencies and professionals.

Unit 3: Supporting children and young people to achieve their learning potential

This unit will focus on learning outcome 3. This unit will be divided into a set of activities to guide your studies. In this unit you will learn how to support children and young people to ensure that they take every possible opportunity to make the most of learning and achieve their learning potential.

Unit 4: Working with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.

This unit will focus on learning outcomes 4 and 5. This unit will be divided into a set of activities to guide your studies. In this unit you will research how practitioners can and should work with children and young people at the centre of their practice, basing their work on the strengths of the children and young people rather than focussing on their difficulties. You will explore the way in which behaviour, social and emotional difficulties are linked with speech, language and communication development and research effective ways to support the speech, language and communication development of children and young people with behaviour, emotional and social difficulties.

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