Children’s Care, Learning and Development

Please note this qualification is only available in Scotland.

The unit headings are:

Level 2 - Mandatory units (all must be completed)

- Contribute to positive relationships
- Help to keep children safe
- Support children's' development
- Use support to develop own practice in children's' care, learning and development
- Prepare and maintain environments to meet children's' needs
- Support children's' play and learning

Optional units (one must be completed)

- Contribute to the effectiveness of teams
- Support the development of babies and children under 3 years
- Support a child with disabilities or special educational needs
- Support children and young peoples' play

Level 3 - Mandatory units (all must be completed)

- Develop and promote positive relationships
- Develop and maintain a healthy, safe and secure environment for children
- Promote children's' development
- Reflect on and develop practice
- Protect and promote children's' rights
- Optional units (4 must be completed)
- Plan and organise environments for children and families
- Promote the health and physical development of children
- Promote children's' well-being and resilience
- Plan and implement curriculum frameworks for early education
- Assess children's progress according to curriculum frameworks for early education
- Provide leadership for your team
- Plan and implement positive environments for babies and children under 3 years
- Support early intervention for the benefit of children and families
- Provide physical care that promotes the health and development of babies and children under 3 years
- Contribute to supporting parents' with literacy, numeracy and language needs
- Maintain and develop a childminding business
- Work with families to enhance their children's' learning and development
- Optional units (4 must be completed) ...continued
- Plan for and support self-directed play
- Promote healthy living for children and families
- Care for children at home
- Support children with disabilities or special educational needs and their families
- Empower families through the development of parenting skills
- Use information and communication technology to support children's early learning
- Support the delivery of community based services to children and families
- Support the child or your person's successful transfer and transition in learning and development contexts
- Safeguard children from harm
- Support children who have experienced trauma
- Administer provision within the childcare setting
- Work with a management committee
- Establish and maintain a service for children and families
- Support children and families through home visiting
- Involve families in the childcare setting
- Recruit, select and keep colleagues
- Deliver services to children and families whose preferred language is not English or Welsh
- Allocate and check work in your team
- Contribute to childcare practice in group living
- Create environments that promote positive behaviour
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues
- Co-ordinate special educational needs in early education settings
- Establish, develop and promote quality systems and procedures for the delivery of childcare services
- Advise and mentor those implementing quality systems and procedures for the delivery of childcare services
- Meet regulatory requirements in the childcare settings

Assessment

Assessment takes place through evaluation of work-based performance, presenting evidence, witness testimony and questioning. A portfolio of evidence is produced which demonstrates that the learner can perform to the level described. Participants will all have a Training Assessor
who will help assemble the portfolio and prepare for assessment.

Progression

Candidates often progress from Level 2 to Level 3 qualifications.