NCFE
Level 2
QN: 610/0643/9
Curriculum Active
NCFE CACHE Level 2 Diploma in Playwork
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by NCFE. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 652 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 2
Awarding Body
NCFE
Syllabus Units
21 Units
Guided Hours
652 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Carry out playwork in a school
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know how to carry out play
- work in a school setting
- Be able to establish a play space within a school setting
- Be able to facilitate children’s self-directed play in a school setting
2
Child-centred practice in a playwork setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of consulting with children in a play
- work setting
- Understand the role of the playworker in supporting children
- Understand advocacy for play and play
- Be able to advocate for play
3
Contribute to providing food and drink in the playwork setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know how to contribute to providing food and drink in a play
- work setting
- Be able to contribute towards providing food and drink in a play
4
Develop own practice
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how reflection contributes to continuing professional development (CPD)
- Be able to use reflective practice in play
- Be able to improve own play
- work practice
5
Engage with parents, carers and families in the playwork setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to communicate with parents, carers and families
- Understand how to contribute to working relationships with parents, carers and families
- Know how to involve parents, carers and families in the play
- work setting
- Be able to communicate with and contribute to working relationships with parents, carers and families
- Be able to support the involvement of parents, carers and families in the play
6
Establish and facilitate playwork in a non-dedicated setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know how to carry out play
- work in a non-dedicated setting
- Be able to prepare a play space within a non-dedicated setting
- Be able to facilitate play
7
Meeting children’s needs in a playwork setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to plan a play setting that meets children’s needs and play preferences
- Understand how play is fundamental to children’s development and wellbeing
- Understand the impact of transitions on children
- Understand how the playworker supports children’s behaviour within a play
- work setting
- Understand inclusive play
- work practice
- Be able to contribute to an inclusive and stimulating play
8
Prepare and facilitate specific play opportunities
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the principles of planning and facilitating specific play opportunities at children’s request
- Know how to plan and prepare specific play opportunities at children’s request
- Know how to facilitate a specific play opportunity at the request of children
- Be able to plan a specific play opportunity
- Be able to prepare a specific play opportunity
- Be able to implement a specific play opportunity
9
Risk benefit for children
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand risk benefit
- Be able to undertake a risk benefit assessment
10
Support children to develop identity and wellbeing
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of self-identity for emotional wellbeing
- Understand the role of the playworker with regard to children developing self-identity
- Be able to reflect on practice in a play
- work setting
- Understand the relevance of identity for a child’s mental health
11
Support children with additional needs and disabilities in a playwork setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to carry out play
- work with children with additional needs and disabilities
- Be able to reflect on inclusive play practice
12
Support children’s play
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know how to work with children to create play spaces
- Understand interventions in the play
- work context
- Be able to support children in the creation of play spaces
- Be able to support children’s play
13
Support children’s travel outside the playwork setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand policies and procedures for children’s travel outside the play
- work setting
- Understand how to support children’s travel outside the play
- Be able to support the arrival and departure of children during travel outside the play
- Be able to support children during travel outside the play
14
Support outside play
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand benefits of playing outside to a child’s holistic health
- Understand the role of the playworker during outside play
- Be able to support play outside
- Understand influences on perceptions of children playing outside
15
Support relationships in a playwork setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to build relationships with children
- Understand how to support communication with children
- Understand how to support relationships between children
- Understand the importance of children being able to re
- solve conflict themselves
- Understand the importance of partnership working with others
- Be able to develop and maintain relationships with children
- Be able to support children to establish and maintain relationships in a play
- work setting
- Be able to support children to re
- solve conflict for themselves
- Be able to demonstrate partnership working with others
16
Support the work of the playwork team
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand different working relationships
- Understand effective team working
- Understand how to contribute to improving a team’s play
- work practice
- Be able to support the work of a play
17
Supporting health, safety and security in the playwork setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand legislation and guidelines for health, safety and security
- Understand policies and procedures for health, safety and security
- Be able to contribute to health, safety and security procedures
- Understand hazards in a play
- work setting
- Be able to respond to hazards in a play
- Know how to respond to injuries and illnesses in the play
- Know how to respond to emergencies in the play
18
The safeguarding and welfare of children in a playwork setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the requirements for safeguarding and the protection and welfare of children in a play
- work setting
- Understand the different forms of ab
- use that can affect children from a play
- work context
- Know how to respond to concerns about children’s welfare
- Understand how to support children to keep themselves safe
- Be able to support children to keep themselves safe
19
Understand how to support children with additional needs and disabilities in a playwork setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand policies relating to the inclusion of children with additional needs and disabilities in a play
- work setting
- Understand barriers to accessing quality play experiences
- Understand partnership working
- Understand how to support a child with additional needs and disabilities to participate in play experiences
20
Understand the playwork principles
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the principles of play
- Understand the nature of children’s play
- Understand the impact of play deprivation on children
- Understand the requirements of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in relation to play
21
Understand the playwork setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the characteristics of an effective play
- work setting
- Understand play
- work theories
- Understand play spaces
- Understand play types
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 610/0643/9
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- NCFE
- Qualification Type
- Occupational Qualification
- Operational Start
- Jul 2022