iCQ
    Level 3
    QN: 601/7899/1
    Curriculum Active

    iCQ Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People's Workforce

    Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by iCQ. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 2711 hours.

    Qualification Level
    Level 3
    Awarding Body
    iCQ
    Syllabus Units
    98 Units
    Guided Hours
    2711 hrs
    Instant access to interactive lessons, quizzes, and spaced revision.

    Course Syllabus & Study Modules

    Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.

    1

    Assessment and planning with children and young people

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to place children and young people at the centre of assessment and planning
    • Be able to participate in assessment and planning for children and young people towards the achievement of positive outcomes
    • Be able to work with children and young people to implement the plan for the achievement of positive outcomes
    • Be able to work with children and young people to review and update plans
    2

    Care for the physical and nutritional needs of babies and young children.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to provide respectful physical care for babies and young children
    • Be able to provide routines for babies and young children that support their health and development
    • Be able to provide opportunities for exercise and physical activity
    • Be able to provide safe and protective environments for babies and young children
    • Be able to provide for the nutritional needs of babies under 18 months
    • Understand how to provide for the nutritional needs of young children from 18-36 months
    3

    Caseload management

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of managing personal case load
    • Be able to prioritise cases in personal case load
    • Understand how to review and evaluate the effectiveness of the case management process
    4

    Context and principles for early years provision.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the purposes and principles of early years frameworks.
    • Be able to provide environments within the work setting that support and extend children’s development and learning in their early years.
    • Understand how to work in partnership with carers.
    5

    Contribute to effective team working in health and social care or children and young people’s settings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand theories of teams and team working.
    • Understand the principles that underpin effective team
    • Be able to work as part of a team.
    • Be able to support individual team members.
    • Be able to review the work of the team.
    6

    Coordinate special educational needs provision.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the role of the special educational needs coordinator.
    • Be able to coordinate the observation, recording, assessment and planning to meet the individual requirements of children with special educational needs.
    • Be able to engage with children with special educational needs and their carers.
    • Be able to coordinate
    • support and advise colleagues working with children who have special educational needs.
    7

    Develop and sustain effective working relationships with staff in other agencies

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the context of working in partnership.
    • Develop effective working relationships with staff in other agencies, Sustain effective working relationships.
    8

    Develop interviewing skills for work with children and young people

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the process of preparing for and planning the interviews
    • Be able to conduct the interview with individual children or young people
    • Be able to implement interview follow up procedures
    9

    Develop Positive Relationship with Children, Young People and Others Involved in Their Care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to develop positive relationships with children and young people.
    • Be able to build positive relationships with people involved in the care of children and young people.
    10

    Develop professional supervision practice in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the purpose of professional supervision in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
    • Understand how the principles of professional supervision can be used to inform performance management in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
    • Be able to undertake the preparation for professional supervision with supervisees in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
    • Be able to provide professional supervision in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
    • Be able to manage conflict situations during professional supervision in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
    • Be able to evaluate own practice when conducting professional supervision in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
    11

    Enable parents to develop ways of handling relationships and behaviour that contribute to everyday life with children

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know how to enable parents to understand and respond to children’s feelings and behaviours.
    • Understand how to support parents to interact with their children in positive ways
    • Understand how to develop parents’ knowledge of how to support children’s play, learning and creativity
    • Understand how to work with parents to find positive ways to meet children’s physical needs.
    • Understand how to reflect on own practice in enabling parents to develop ways of handling relationships and behaviour that contribute to everyday life with children.
    12

    Engage fathers in their children’s early learning

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the policy context and research that underpins the involvement of fathers in their children’s early learning.
    • Understand how to work in partnership with fathers to support their children’s earlylearning
    • Understand the barriers to fathers being involved in their children’s early learning.
    • Understand how to use reflection to challenge and develop existing practice inworking with fathers to support their children’s early learning.
    13

    Engage in personal development in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand what is required for competence in own work role
    • Be able to reflect on practice
    • Be able to evaluate own performance
    • Be able to agree a personal development plan
    • Be able to use learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development
    14

    Engage parents in their children’s early learning

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the policy context and research that underpins parental involvement in their children’s early learning.
    • Understand how to work in partnership with parents to support their children’s early learning.
    • Understand barriers to parents being involved in their children’s early learning.
    • Understand how to use reflection to challenge and develop existing practice in working with parents to support their children’s early learning.
    15

    Engage young parents in supporting their children’s development

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the context ofpregnancy and parenthood foryoung people.
    • Understand transition issues for young people and their potential impact on parenthood.
    • Understand the impact of stress on a young parent’s relationship with their child/children.
    • Understand how to engage young parents with services.
    • Understand the specific needs of young fathers in engaging withtheir child’s needs anddevelopment
    16

    Facilitate learning and development activities to meet individual needs and preferences

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the role of learning and development activities in meeting individual needs
    • Be able to identify learning and development activities to meet individual needs and preferences
    • Be able to plan learning and development activities with individuals
    • Be able to prepare for learning and development activities
    • Be able to facilitate learning and development activities with individuals
    • Be able to evaluate and review learning and development activities
    17

    Facilitate the development of effective group practice in health and social care or children and young people’s settings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how groups develop and function in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
    • Be able to create a climate that facilitates effective groups in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
    • Be able to facilitate a group in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
    • Be able to enhance learning through the constructive use of power, authority and influence in group work in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
    • Be able to monitor and review the work of a group in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
    18

    Facilitate the learning and development of children and young people through mentoring

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to facilitate the learning and development needs of children and young people through mentoring
    • Be able to support children and young people to address their individual learning and development needs
    • Be able to promote the wellbeing, resilience and achievement of individual children and young people through mentoring
    • Be able to review the effectiveness of the mentoring process
    19

    Identify and act upon immediate risk of danger to substance misusers

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Identify immediate risk of danger to substance misusers, Act upon immediate risk of danger to substance misusers
    20

    Implement therapeutic group activities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the principles of therapeutic group activities
    • Be able to plan and prepare for therapeutic group activities
    • Be able to support individuals during therapeutic group activities
    • Be able to contribute to the evaluation of therapeutic group activities
    21

    Improving the attendance of children and young people in statutory education

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the factors that impact on the attendance of children and young people in statutory education
    • Understand the role of individuals and agencies in improving attendance of children and young people in statutory education
    • Be able to use attendance data to inform strategies and plans to improve attendance of children and young people in statutory education
    • Be able to support work with children, young people and families to improve attendance according to role and responsibilities
    22

    Increase awareness about drugs, alcohol or other substances with individuals and groups

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand legislation and policy relevant to substance use
    • Understand substance use, its effects and treatments
    • Identify individuals’ knowledge and values about substances, Increase individuals’ knowledge and understanding of substances
    23

    Lead and manage a community based early years setting.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the purposes, benefits and key features of community based early years provision
    • Be able to lead the team in a community based early years setting
    • Be able to engage parents as partners in the community based early years setting
    • Be able to engage parents in the management/decision making processes of an early years setting
    • Be able to provide learning opportunities to support parents’ participation in a community based early years setting
    • Be able to manage the resource, regulatory and financial requirements for a community based early years setting
    24

    Manage induction in health and social care or children and young people’s settings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the purpose of induction for health and social care or children and young people’s settings
    • Be able to manage the induction process in health, social care and children and young people’s work settings
    • Be able to support the implementation of induction processes in health, social care and children and young people’s work settings
    • Be able to evaluate the induction process in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
    • Be able to implement improvements to the induction process in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
    25

    Practise as a Foster Carer

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to prepare to accommodate children or young people in their own home.
    • Be able to support children and young people to settle into the family home.
    • Be able to provide a safe home environment for children and young people accessing foster care.
    • Be able to support family and other key people to adjust to family life with children and young people accessing foster care.
    • Be able to work effectively as a member of a professional team and wider community to meet the needs of children and young people in foster care.
    26

    Principles for implementing duty of care in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice
    • Know how to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and the duty of care
    • Know how to respond to complaints
    27

    Professional practice in children and young people’s social care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the legislation and policy frame
    • work for working with children and young people in social care work settings
    • Understand the professional responsibilities of working with children and young people
    • Be able to meet professional responsibilities by reflecting on own performance and practice
    • Be able to develop effective working relationships with professional colleagues
    • Understand the implications of equalities legislation for working with children, young people and families
    • Understand the value of diversity and the importance of equality and anti-discriminatory practice
    28

    Professional practice in early years settings.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the scope and purposes of the early years sector.
    • Understand current policies and influences on the early years sector.
    • Understand how to support diversity, inclusion and participation in early years settings.
    • Be able to review own practice inpromoting diversity, inclusionand participation in early yearssettings.
    29

    Professional Practice in learning, development and support services

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the purposes of learning, development and support services
    • Understand current legislation, policies and influences on LDSS
    • Be able to implement the current principles and values that underpin and inform the work of LDSS practitioners
    • Understand how the views of children, young people and carers can be used to improve learning, development and support services
    • Be able to use supervision to support continuing professional development and personal effectiveness, .
    • Be able to reflect on own skills, knowledge and effectiveness to inform and improve own practice
    30

    Promote Child and Young Person Development.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to assess the development needs of children or young people and prepare a development plan.
    • Be able to promote the development of children or young people.
    • Be able to support the provision of environments and services that promote the development of children or young people.
    • Understand how working practices can impact on the development of children and young people.
    • Be able to support children and young people’s positive behaviour.
    • Be able to support children and young people experiencing transitions.
    31

    Promote children’s welfare and well being in the early years.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the welfare requirements of the relevant early years frame
    • Be able to keep early years children safe in the work setting.
    • Understand the importance of promoting positive health and well being for early years children.
    • Be able to support hygiene and prevention of cross infection in the early years setting.
    • Understand how to ensure children in their early years receive high quality, balanced nutrition to meet their growth and development needs.
    • Be able to provide physical care for children.
    32

    Promote communication in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting
    • Be able to meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals
    • Be able to overcome barriers to communication
    • Be able to apply principles and practices relating to confidentiality
    33

    Promote equality and inclusion in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion
    • Be able to work in an inclusive way
    • Be able to promote diversity, equality and inclusion
    34

    Promote learning and development in the early years.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the purpose and requirements of the areas of learning and development in the relevant early years frame
    • Be able to plan work with children and support children’s participation in planning.
    • Be able to promote children’s learning and development according to the requirements of the relevant early years frame
    • Be able to engage with children in activities and experiences that support their learning and development.
    • Be able to review own practice in supporting the learning and development of children in their early years.
    35

    Promote nutrition and hydration in early years and childcare settings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the principles of a balanced diet for children.
    • Be able to plan and promote a balanced diet for children.
    • Understand the principles of hydration for babies and children.
    • Be able to promote hydration in babies and/or children.
    • Understand how to contribute to the prevention of malnutrition in babies and children.
    • Understand the principles of infant feeding.
    • Understand the importance of special dietary requirements for babies and children.
    • Be able to contribute to the monitoring of nutrition and hydration for babies or children.
    36

    Promote nutrition and hydration in health and social care settings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand what makes up a balanced diet.
    • Understand nutritional guidelines.
    • Be able to promote nutrition in health and social care settings.
    • Be able to promote hydration in health and social care settings.
    • Understand how to prevent malnutrition in health and social care settings.
    • Be able to carry out nutritional screening in health and social care settings.
    • Be able to monitor and record nutrition and hydration needs with individuals in health and social care settings.
    • Understand factors that affect special dietary requirements in health and social care settings.
    37

    Promote positive behaviour

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how legislation, frameworks, codes of practice and policies relate to positive behaviour support.
    • Understand the context and use of proactive and reactive strategies.
    • Be able to promote positive behaviour.
    • Be able to respond appropriately to incidents of challenging behaviour.
    • Be able to support individuals and others following an incident of challenging behaviour.
    • Be able to review and revise approaches to promoting positive behaviour.
    38

    Promote Signing to Advance Speech, Language and Communication

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how the use of sign supported English supports learning and development.
    • Be able to use sign supported English to promote learning and development.
    • Understand the role of signing and fingerspelling in the development of early literacy.
    • Understand the role of sign supported English in providing an environment which values children and young people and encourages positive pro-social behaviour.
    • Understand how the use of sign supported English promotes inclusive practice and contributes to parental involvement/partnership.
    39

    Promote the well being and resilience of children and young people

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of promoting positive well being and resilience of children and young people
    • Understand how to support the development of children and young people’s social and emotional identify and self esteem in line with their age and level of understanding
    • Be able to provide children and young people with a positive outlook on their lives
    • Be able to respond to the health needs of children and young people
    40

    Promote young children’s physical activity and movement skills.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of physical activity and the development of movement skills for young children’s development, health and well being
    • Be able to prepare and support a safe and challenging environment for young children that encourages physical activity and the development of movement skills
    • Be able to plan and implement physical activities for young children
    • Be able to build opportunities for physical activity into everyday routines for young children
    • Be able to evaluate the effectiveness of provision in supporting young children’s physical activity and movement skills
    41

    Provide information and advice to children and young people

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the role of practitioners in providing information and advice to children and young people
    • Be able to establish and address the information and advice needs of children and young people
    • Be able to provide children and young people with appropriate information and advice to enable them to make informed choices
    42

    Provide support to children or young people who have experienced harm or abuse

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the role of self and others when supporting children or young people who have experienced harm or ab
    • Be able to support children or young people who disclose harm or ab
    • Be able to support children or young people who have experienced harm or ab
    • Be able to work with others to support the safe involvement of key people with children or young people who have experienced harm or ab
    43

    Provide support to continue recommended therapies

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of supporting individuals to continue recommended therapies
    • Be able to encourage individuals to complete activities recommended by therapists
    • Be able to support individuals to continue recommended therapy
    • Be able to observe
    • record and report on observations during recommended therapy
    • Be able to contribute to evaluation and review of recommended therapies
    44

    Recognise indications of substance misuse and refer individuals to specialists

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Recognise indications of substance mis
    • Assess and monitor risk., Handle information and maintain records., Refer individuals to appropriate services.
    45

    Support Care within fostering services for vulnerable children and young people.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the role of support care in fostering services for vulnerable children, young people and carers
    • Be able to offer support care within fostering services to a vulnerable child or young people
    • Be able to support carers of vulnerable children or young people
    46

    Support children and young people to achieve their education potential

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the principles, values and current legislation that supports work to help children and young people achieve their educational potential
    • Be able to support children and young people to identify and articulate their learning needs, set goals and plan actions
    • Be able to support children and young people to work towards their educational goals
    • Be able to review educational achievements with children and young people
    47

    Support children and young people to achieve their learning potential

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the legislation and policies that underpin education and learning for children and young people
    • Be able to support children and young people to work out what they want to learn and achieve
    • Be able to work with children and young people to make the most of learning opportunities
    • Know how to work with others to support children and young people to achieve the best possible outcomes from learning opportunities
    48

    Support children and young people to have positive relationships

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of positive relationships for the development and well being of children and young people
    • Be able to support children and young people to make and maintain positive relationships
    • Understand how to support children and young people when there are relationship difficulties
    49

    Support children and young people to make positive changes in their lives

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to support children and young people to make positive changes in their lives
    • Be able to support children and young people to make positive changes in their lives
    • Be able to review support to children and young people to make positive changes in their lives
    50

    Support Children and Young People's Health and Safety.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to plan and provide environments and services that support children and young people’s health and safety.
    • Be able to recognise and manage risks to health, safety and security in a work setting or off site visits.
    • Understand how to support children and young people to assess and manage risk for themselves.
    • Understand appropriate responses to accidents, incidents emergencies and illness in work settings and off site visits.
    51

    Support children and young people’s speech, language and communication skills.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance and the benefits of adults supporting the speech, language and communication development of children and young people
    • Be able to provide support for the speech, language and communication development of children and young people
    • Understand how environments support speech, language and communication
    • Be able to recognise, and obtain additional support for, children and young people who may have speech, language and communication needs
    52

    Support children or young people in their own home.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand roles and responsibilities in relation to supporting children or young people in their own home
    • Be able to build positive relationships with children or young people and their carers when working in their home
    • Be able to provide support for children or young people to engage in activities that meet their needs and preferences
    53

    Support children’s knowledge and understanding of the world

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of knowledge and understanding of the world for children’s learning.
    • Be able to use assessments to develop plans for children’s knowledge and understanding of the world.
    • Be able to use activities for the development of children’s knowledge and understanding of the world.
    • Be able to reflect on own performance in supporting the development of children’s knowledge and understanding of the world.
    54

    Support children’s language, literacy and communication

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of language, literacy and communication for children’s learning.
    • Be able to use assessments to develop plans for language, literacy and communication development.
    • Be able to use activities for the development of children’s language, literacy and communication.
    • Be able to reflect on own performance in supporting the development of children’s language, literacy and communication.
    55

    Support children’s learning in ICT

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of ICT for children’s learning.
    • Be able to use assessments to develop plans for ICT skills development.
    • Be able to use activities for children’s ICT skills development.
    • Be able to reflect on own performance in supporting children’s’ ICT skills development.
    56

    Support children’s mathematical development

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of mathematical development for children’s learning.
    • Be able to use assessments to develop plans for mathematical development.
    • Be able to use activities for children’s mathematical development.
    • Be able to reflect on own performance in supporting children’s mathematical development.
    57

    Support children’s outdoor play

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of outdoor play for children’s health, learning and development.
    • Be able to use assessments to develop plans to support outdoor play.
    • Be able to use activities for the development of children’s outdoor play.
    • Be able to reflect on own performance in supporting the development of children’s outdoor play.
    58

    Support children’s physical development through activities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of physical development for children’s learning.
    • Be able to plan and organise an effective environment to support physical development.
    • Be able to use activities for children's physical development.
    • Be able to reflect on own performance in supporting physical development.
    59

    Support children’s speech, language and communication.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of speech, language and communication for children’s overall development.
    • Understand the importance and the benefits of adults supporting the speech, language and communication development of the children in own setting.
    • Be able to provide support for the speech, language and communication development of the children in own setting.
    • Be able to contribute to maintaining a positive environment that supports speech, language and communication.
    60

    Support disabled children and young people and those with specific requirements.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the principles of working inclusively with disabled children and young people and those with specific requirements
    • Be able to work in partnership with families with disabled children or young people and those with specific requirements
    • Be able to support age and developmentally appropriate learning, play or leisure opportunities for disabled children or young people and those with specific requirements
    • Be able to evaluate
    • support and develop existing practice with disabled children and young people and those with specific requirements
    • Understand how to work in partnership with other agencies and professionals to support provision for disabled children and young people and those with specific requirements
    61

    Support families in maintaining relationships in their wider social structures

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of social interactions and relationships for families of people with specific needs
    • Understand the issues surrounding discrimination
    • Be able to support families to access opportunities for social contact within their wider social structures
    • Be able to support families to maintain social contacts within their wider social structures
    62

    Support individuals in their relationships

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand factors affecting the capacity of individuals to develop and/or maintain relationships.
    • Be able to support individuals to identify beneficial relationships.
    • Be able to support individuals to develop new relationships.
    • Be able to support individuals to maintain existing relationships.
    • Be able to work with individuals to review the support provided for relationships.
    63

    Support individuals to deal with personal relationship problems

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to support individuals to assess relationship problems.
    • Be able to support individuals to overcome relationship problems.
    • Know how and when to access specialist support about relationship problems.
    • Know how to support individuals to end unhelpful relationships.
    • Be able to evaluate the support provided for relationship problems.
    64

    Support individuals to live at home

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the principles of supporting individuals to live at home
    • Be able to contribute to planning support for living at home
    • Be able to work with individuals to secure additional services and facilities to enable them to live at home
    • Be able to work in partnership to introduce additional services for individuals living at home
    • Be able to contribute to reviewing support for living at home
    65

    Support individuals to stay safe from harm or abuse

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how legislative frameworks support the safeguarding of individuals.
    • Be able to support individuals to gain understanding of behaviours and situations that may make them vulnerable to harm or ab
    • Be able to support individuals to gain understanding about how to stay safe.
    • Be able to work in ways that support individuals to stay safe.
    66

    Support individuals who are bereaved

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the effects of bereavement on individuals
    • Understand principles for supporting individuals who are bereaved
    • Be able to support individuals to express their response to loss
    • Be able to support individuals who are bereaved
    • Understand the role of specialist agencies in supporting individuals who are bereaved
    • Be able to manage own feelings when providing support for individuals who are bereaved
    67

    Support individuals who are substance users.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand about different substances, their effects and how they might be used., Enable individuals to adopt safe practices associated with substance use.
    • Support individuals when they have used substances.
    • Support individuals in reducing substance use.
    68

    Support individuals with autistic spectrum conditions

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand legislative frameworks that relate to individuals with autistic spectrum conditions.
    • Understand the main characteristics of autistic spectrum conditions.
    • Be able to support individuals with autistic spectrum conditions.
    • Be able to support individuals with autistic spectrum condition with verbal and non-verbal communication.
    • Be able to support individuals with transitions and change.
    69

    Support Individuals With Specific Communication Needs

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand specific communication needs and factors affecting them
    • Be able to contribute to establishing the nature of specific communication needs of individuals and ways to address them
    • Be able to interact with individuals using their preferred communication
    • Be able to promote communication between individuals and others
    • Know how to support the use of communication technology and aids
    • Be able to review an individual’s communication needs and the support provided to address them
    70

    Support positive attachments for children and young people

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of positive attachment for the well being of children and young people.
    • Understand how resilience can reduce vulnerability of children and young people to separation and loss.
    • Be able to promote positive attachments for children or young people.
    • Be able to develop own practice in supporting positive attachments for children or young people.
    71

    Support positive practice with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the concept of positive practice when working with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs
    • Know how to work alongside speech, language and communication specialists to use appropriate strategies and targets to support children and young people
    • Be able to place children and young people at the centre of professional practice when working with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs
    • Understand how to work with others to support the social, emotional and cognitive needs of children and young people
    72

    Support speech, language and communication development.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of speech, language and communication for children’s overall development
    • Understand typical speech, language and communication development in children and young people
    • Be able to identify typical speech, language and communication development of children and young people
    73

    Support the creativity of children and young people

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how creativity promotes well being for children and young people
    • Be able to encourage children and young people to recognise and value their own and others’ creativity
    • Be able to support children and young people to take part in creative activities
    • Be able to participate in creative, day to day activities with children and young people
    74

    Support the development of positive behaviour in children

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand principles of supporting the development of positive behaviour in children.
    • Be able to establish behavioural goals and boundaries with children.
    • Be able to support children to understand their behaviour.
    • Be able to support children to achieve behavioural goals and adhere to agreed boundaries.
    75

    Support the referral process for children and young people

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the referral options that are available for children and young people
    • Be able to work with children and young people in order to encourage their participation in the referral process.
    • Be able to support children and young people through the referral process
    • Be able to evaluate the effectiveness of the referral process suggesting improvements
    76

    Support the speech, language and communication development of children who are learning more than one language.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the speech, language and communication assessment process for children and young people who are learning more than one language
    • Understand the cultural issues of assessing and supporting the speech, language and communication development of children and young people who are learning more than one language
    • Be able to work with parents of children and young people whose home language is not English
    • Know how to work with others in order to support the speech, language and communication development of children and young people whose home language is not English
    77

    Support use of medication in social care settings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the legislative frame
    • work for the use of medication in social care settings
    • Know about common types of medication and their use
    • Understand roles and responsibilities in the use of medication in social care settings
    • Understand techniques for administering medication
    • Be able to receive, store and dispose of medication supplies safely
    • Know how to promote the rights of the individual when managing medication
    • Be able to support use of medication
    • Be able to record and report on use of medication
    78

    Support young people in relation to sexual health and risk of pregnancy

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the issues affecting young people in relation to sexual health and risk of pregnancy
    • Understand how to support young people in relation to sexual health and risk of pregnancy
    79

    Support young people to develop, implement and review a plan of action

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance for young people of developing a personal action plan for their future development needs
    • Be able to support young people to develop an action plan
    • Be able to support young people to work towards implementation of their action plan
    • Be able to support young people to review and revise their action plan
    • Be able to review own role in supporting the development and implementation of the young person’s action plan
    80

    Support young people to move towards independence and manage their lives

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the way that young people move from dependence to independence
    • Be able to prepare young people for the practical challenges of independence
    • Be able to prepare young people for the emotional challenges of independence
    • Be able to prepare young people to assess personal risks and protect themselves
    81

    Support young people who are involved in anti-social and/or criminal activities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the underlying issues contributing to the anti-social and/or criminal activity of young people
    • Understand how to support young people who are involved in anti-social and/or criminal activities
    82

    Support young people who are looked after or are leaving care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the issues affecting young people who are looked after or leaving care
    • Understand how to support young people who are looked after or leaving care
    • Know about the statutory and legal frameworks in relation to young people who are looked after or leaving care
    83

    Support young people who are socially excluded or excluded from school

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the issues affecting young people who are socially excluded or excluded from school
    • Understand how to support young people who are socially excluded or excluded from school
    84

    Supporting infection prevention and control in social care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how infection prevention and control policies and guidelines can be applied within different settings.
    • Be able to support infection prevention and control practices in the work setting.
    • Be able to minimise the risk and spread of infection when using equipment.
    • Understand how to respond to outbreaks of infection in the work setting.
    • Be able to follow correct recording and reporting procedures regarding infection prevention and control.
    85

    Understand Child and Young Person Development.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth - 19 years.
    • Understand the factors that influence children and young people’s development and how these affect practice.
    • Understand how to monitor children and young people’s development and interventions that should take place if this is not following the expected pattern.
    • Understand the importance of early intervention to support the speech, language and communication needs of children and young people.
    • Understand the potential effects of transitions on children and young people’s development.
    86

    Understand How to Safeguard the Wellbeing of Children and Young People.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the main legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people.
    • Understand the importance of working in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children and young people.
    • Understand the importance of ensuring children and young people’s safety and protection in the work setting.
    • Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed.
    • Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been bullied.
    • Understand how to work with children and young people to support their safety and wellbeing.
    • Understand the importance of e-safety for children and young people.
    87

    Understand how to set up a home based childcare service.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to set up a home based childcare service.
    • Understand how to establish a safe and healthy home based environment for children.
    • Understand the importance of partnerships with parents for all aspects of the home based childcare service.
    • Understand the principles of development of routines for home based child care.
    • Understand how to provide play and other activities for children in home based settings that will support equality and inclusion.
    • Understand how home based childcarers can support the safeguarding of children in their care.
    • Understand the principles of supporting positive behaviour in home based childcare settings.
    88

    Understand How to Support Positive Outcomes for Children and Young People.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how the social, economic and cultural environment can impact on the outcomes and life chances of children and young people.
    • Understand how practitioners can make a positive difference in outcomes for children and young people.
    • Understand the possible impact of disability, special requirements (additional needs) and attitudes on positive outcomes for children and young people.
    • Understand the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion in promoting positive outcomes for children and young people.
    89

    Understand the context of supporting children and young people through foster care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the circumstances that can lead to children and young people accessing foster care.
    • Know the information that should be provided to foster carers prior to placements being arranged.
    • Understand how legislation, policies and procedures relate to foster care.
    • Understand how foster care can make a positive difference to the lives of children and young people in care.
    • Understand the importance of relationships for children and young people accessing foster care.
    • Understand the roles and responsibilities of a foster carer when working with birth families, carers and professionals.
    90

    Understand the needs of children and young people who are vulnerable and experiencing poverty and disadvantage.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the factors that may impact on the outcomes and life chances of children and young people.
    • Understand how poverty and disadvantage affect children and young people’s development.
    • Understand the importance of early intervention for children and young people who are disadvantaged and vulnerable.
    • Understand the importance of support and partnership in improving outcomes for children and young people who are experiencing poverty and disadvantage.
    • Understand the role of the practitioner in supporting children and young people who are vulnerable and experiencing poverty and disadvantage.
    91

    Understand the speech, language and communication needs of children and young people with behavioural, social and emotional difficulties.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the links between language, behaviour, emotional and social development difficulties
    • Understand how to support positive speech, language and communication development for children and young people with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties
    • Understand how to adapt strategies and approaches to behavioural, emotional and social development to meet speech, language and communication needs
    • Know how to work with others in order to support the speech, language and communication development of children and young people with behavioural, emotional and social development needs
    92

    Understanding professional supervision practice

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the purpose of supervision
    • Understand how the principles of supervision can be used to inform performance management
    • Understand how to support individuals through professional supervision
    • Understand how professional supervision supports performance
    93

    Work with babies and young children to promote their development and learning.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the development and learning of babies and young children
    • Be able to promote the development and learning of babies and young children
    • Understand the attachment needs of babies and young children
    • Be able to engage with babies and young children and be sensitive to their needs
    • Be able to work in partnership with carers in order to promote the learning and development of babies and young children
    94

    Work with children and young people in a residential care setting

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the legal, policy, rights and theoretical frame
    • work for residential care for children and young people
    • Understand own role and professional responsibilities in a residential care setting
    • Be able to work with children and young people through the day to day activities involved in sharing a living space
    • Be able to work with children and young people in a residential setting
    • Be able to safeguard children and young people in a residential care setting
    95

    Work with parents to meet their children’s needs

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the nature of the parent andchild relationship
    • Know how to work with parents to understand the nature of the parent and child relationship
    • Understand how to work with parents to provide age appropriate support for a specified age group of children
    • Understand how to reflect on own practice in working with parents to meet their children’s needs.
    96

    Work with parents, families and carers to support their children’s speech, language and communication development.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of parental support for the development of speech, language and communication
    • Be able to work in partnership with parents to support their child’s speech, language and communication development
    • Be able to support parents to use activities and approaches to support their child’s speech, language and communication development
    • Understand the importance of working in partnership with parents of children with speech, language and communication needs and relevant professional agencies
    97

    Working Together for the Benefit of Children and Young People.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand integrated and multi agency working.
    • Be able to communicate with others for professional purposes.
    • Be able to support organisational processes and procedures for recording, storing and sharing information.
    98

    Working within a Social Pedagogic framework with children and young people

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to apply the principles of social pedagogy.
    • Understand the concept of holistic wellbeing and happiness of individual children and young people.
    • Be able to engage with children or young people to create supportive learning opportunities.

    Regulatory & Verification Details

    Qualification Number (QN)
    601/7899/1
    Regulated Status
    Available to learners
    Awarding Body
    iCQ
    Qualification Type
    Occupational Qualification
    Operational Start
    Oct 2015

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