NCFE
Level 3
QN: 603/7477/9
Curriculum Active
NCFE CACHE Level 3 Extended Diploma for Children's Care Learning and Development (Northern Ireland)
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by NCFE. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 1389 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 3
Awarding Body
NCFE
Syllabus Units
28 Units
Guided Hours
1389 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Communication and partnership working – Theme 2
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand why 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 of confidentiality
- Be able to implement and support good practice in handling information
- Understand how to respond to complaints
- Understand how partnership supports multi-agency and integrated working practices
2
Context and principles for the early years sector – Theme 1
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the purpose and principles of the early years sector
- Be able to apply professional standards in practice
- Understand theories of teams and team working
- Understand the principles that underpin effective team
- Be able to reflect on team
- work in own setting
- Understand the purpose, process and principles of supervision
- Be able to agree and review own personal development plan
3
Contribute to the support of children with disabilities and/or special needs – Theme 8
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the difference between medical, social and psycho-social models of disability
- Understand how the adoption of models of disability impact on the well-being and quality of life of individuals
- Understand how additional needs can occur
- Understand the principles of working inclusively with children with disabilities and/or additional needs
- Be able to plan and promote the learning, play or leisure opportunities and experiences for children with additional needs
- Be able to evaluate own contribution to supporting children with additional needs
4
Developing study skills for professional practice
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the role of study skills
- Know about different study skills
- Understand approaches to study skills
- Understand how to reference information
- Understand research skills
- Understand how to present information
- Be able to present information that is fit for purpose and relevant to target audience
- Understand how to source information when planning a project or piece of writing
- Understand the need to evaluate the process involved in gathering and presenting information
5
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.
6
Enabling play environments
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know about enabling play environments within early years practice
- Understand benefits of play provision for young children in early years settings
- Understand resilience in the context of early years practice
- Be able to plan an enabling play environment within early years settings
- Be able to engage parents/carers in an enabling play environment
7
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.
8
Keeping children safe, healthy and well – Theme 4
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to plan to ensure that health and safety considerations are identified and addressed
- Be able to recognise and manage risks to health, safety and security in an early years setting and off site
- Know what to do in the event of a non-medical incident or emergency
- Know how to recognise and respond to children’s minor illness, injury, infection, infestation and notifiable diseases
- Know about national immunisation programmes for common childhood illnesses and notifiable diseases
- Be able to follow infection control procedures
- Contribute to the safe handling of medication
- Be able to promote health and wellbeing for children
9
Partnership working in early years
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand team
- work when working with children
- Understand partnership working for improved outcomes for children and families
- Understand complexities involved in partnership working
- Understand limits and boundaries of own role
- Be able to work as part of a team
10
Planning for improved outcomes when working with babies and children in an early years setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to identify an aspect of education and care as the project focus
- Be able to justify the chosen aspect of education and care
- Be able to develop a project
- Be able to share proposal in an early years setting
- Be able to present project to tutor and peers
11
Promote children in early years settings acquiring a new language through immersion
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the needs of children and families within a new language learning environment.
- Be able to implement the immersion method within the child care setting.
- Be able to plan the environment to promote children’s immersion language acquisition.
- Be able to support the acquisition of language skills that children need to speak a new language.
- Be able to review and evaluate the effectiveness of immersion language development within the setting.
- Be able to evaluate own contribution to children’s language development.
12
Promote signing to advance speech, language and communication
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how the use of signing supports learning and development
- Be able to use signing to promote learning and development
- Understand the role of signing and fingerspelling in the development of early literacy
- Understand how to provide an environment which values children and encourages positive pro-social behaviour
- Understand how the use of signing promotes inclusive practice and contributes to parental involvement/partnership
13
Safeguarding children – Theme 3
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the main legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding
- Understand the importance of working in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children
- Understand the importance of ensuring children’s safety and protection in the work setting
- Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child has been abused or harmed
- Understand how to respond to concerns that a child is or has been bullied
- Be able to use child-centred practices to support children’s safety and wellbeing
14
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
15
Support children with autistic spectrum conditions
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the impact of autistic spectrum conditions on children’s learning and development
- Understand how legislative and policy frameworks impact on provision for children with autistic spectrum conditions
- Understand how statutory roles and responsibilities contribute to provision for children with autistic spectrum conditions
- Be able to communicate effectively with children with autistic spectrum conditions
- Be able to support the learning and development of children with autistic spectrum conditions
- Be able to work in partnership with others to support children with autistic spectrum conditions
16
Support children with learning disabilities
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the scope and impact of learning disability on children
- Understand how legislative and policy frameworks impact on provision for children with learning disabilities
- Understand how statutory roles and responsibilities contribute to the provision for children with learning disabilities
- Be able to communicate with children with learning disabilities
- Be able to support the learning and development of children with learning disabilities
- Be able to work in partnership with others to support children with learning disabilities
17
Support children with physical disabilities
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the scope and impact of physical disability on children
- Understand how legislative and policy frameworks impact on provision for children with physical disabilities
- Understand how statutory roles and responsibilities contribute to the provision for children with physical disabilities
- Be able to communicate with children with physical disabilities
- Be able to support the learning and development of children with physical disabilities
- Be able to work in partnership with others to support children with physical disabilities
18
Support children with sensory loss
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the scope and impact of sensory loss for children
- Understand how legislative and policy frameworks impact on provision for children with sensory loss
- Understand how statutory roles and responsibilities contribute to the provision for children with sensory loss
- Be able to communicate with children with sensory loss
- Be able to support the learning and development of children with sensory loss
- Be able to work in partnership with others to support children with sensory loss
19
Support children’s personal care and nutrition – Theme 5
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to ensure babies and young children receive high-quality, balanced nutrition to meet their growth and development needs
- Be able to support hygiene during meal or snack times
- Be able to provide respectful physical care routines for babies and/or young children to support their health and development
- Understand the importance of physical activity and the development of movement skills for babies and young children’s development, health and well-being
- Be able to provide and support a safe and challenging environment for babies and/or young children that encourages physical activity and the development of movement skills
20
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
21
Support families who have a child with a disability
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the impact on a family of having a child with a disability
- Be able to support families who have a child with a disability
- Be able to support families with a child with a disability to use informal networks and community resources, 4.
- Be able to work in partnership with other professionals and agencies to support families with a child with a disability
22
Support the learning and development of children with health needs
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the impact of health needs on children’s development
- Understand how legislative and policy frameworks impact on provision for children with health needs
- Understand how statutory roles and responsibilities contribute to the provision for children with health needs
- Be able to communicate with children with health needs
- Be able to support the learning and development of children with health needs
- Be able to work in partnership with others to support children with health needs
23
Supporting children’s development – Theme 6
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the expected pattern of development for babies and young children from preconception to 12 years
- Understand the factors that influence children’s development and how these impact practice
- Be able to support the provision of environments that promote the development of babies and/or young children
- Be able to assess and monitor the development needs of babies and/or young children
- Understand how early intervention supports babies and young children’s holistic learning and development
- Be able to support babies and/or young children during transitions
- Understand the importance of speech, language, communication and literacy for children’s overall development
- Be able to provide support for the speech, language and communication development of children
- Understand the importance of early intervention to support the speech, language and communication needs of children
- Be able to support children’s behaviour
24
Supporting children’s play opportunities and experiences of play – Theme 7
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the value of play and your role in supporting play
- Be able to identify schemas during children’s play
- Be able to support play opportunities and experiences, indoor and outdoor, that promote health, well-being and learning and development
- Be able to support an enabling and accessible indoor and outdoor play environment for all children
- Be able to support children’s play and learning through risk and challenge
25
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.
26
Understand the role of the practitioner when supporting children with Special Educational Needs and Disability
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand statutory guidance underpinning practice for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in early years and childcare settings in Northern Ireland
- Understand the role of the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator (SENDCo) when working with children
- Know about services available to support practitioners when working with children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
- Understand early intervention strategies when working with children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
27
Understanding neuroscience in early years
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand early brain development
- Understand neurons and their main functions
- Understand the process of synaptogenesis
- Understand the developing social brain
28
Understanding perspectives on childhood in society
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand childhood in society
- Understand factors influencing childhood experiences
- Understand the impact of conflict on childhood in Northern Ireland
- Understand the importance of research for best practice in the early years
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 603/7477/9
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- NCFE
- Qualification Type
- Occupational Qualification
- Operational Start
- Sept 2021