Pearson EDI · RQF Level 3

Pearson EDI Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People's Workforce (QCF)

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  • LevelRQF Level 3
  • Total credits65
  • Guided learning120 hours
  • Units in this qualification98

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What each unit actually teaches you to do

These are the units Pearson EDI registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.

Assessment and planning with children and young peopleReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to place children and young people at the centre of assessment and planning
  • Participate in assessment and planning for children and young people towards the achievement of positive outcomes
  • Work with children and young people to implement the plan for the achievement of positive outcomes
  • Work with children and young people to review and update plans
Care for the physical and nutritional needs of babies and young children.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Provide respectful physical care for babies and young children
  • Provide routines for babies and young children that support their health and development
  • Provide opportunities for exercise and physical activity
  • Provide safe and protective environments for babies and young children
  • 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
Caseload managementReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of managing personal case load
  • Prioritise cases in personal case load
  • Understand how to review and evaluate the effectiveness of the case management process
Context and principles for early years provision.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the purposes and principles of early years frameworks.
  • 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.
Contribute to effective team working in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand theories of teams and team working.
  • Understand the principles that underpin effective teamwork.
  • Work as part of a team.
  • Support individual team members.
  • Review the work of the team.
Coordinate special educational needs provision.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of the special educational needs coordinator.
  • Coordinate the observation, recording, assessment and planning to meet the individual requirements of children with special educational needs.
  • Engage with children with special educational needs and their carers.
  • Coordinate, support and advise colleagues working with children who have special educational needs.
Develop Positive Relationship with Children, Young People and Others Involved in Their CareReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Develop positive relationships with children and young people.
  • Build positive relationships with people involved in the care of children and young people.
Develop and sustain effective working relationships with staff in other agenciesReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the context of working in partnership.
  • Develop effective working relationships with staff in other agencies
  • Sustain effective working relationships.
Develop interviewing skills for work with children and young peopleReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the process of preparing for and planning the interviews
  • Conduct the interview with individual children or young people
  • Implement interview follow up procedures
Develop professional supervision practice in health and social care or children and young people’s work settingsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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
  • Undertake the preparation for professional supervision with supervisees in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
  • Provide professional supervision in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
  • Manage conflict situ
Enable parents to develop ways of handling relationships and behaviour that contribute to everyday life with childrenReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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.
Engage fathers in their children’s early learningReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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.
Engage in personal development in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settingsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand what is required for competence in own work role
  • Reflect on practice
  • Evaluate own performance
  • Agree a personal development plan
  • Use learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development
Engage parents in their children’s early learningReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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.
Engage young parents in supporting their children’s developmentReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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
Facilitate learning and development activities to meet individual needs and preferencesReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of learning and development activities in meeting individual needs
  • Identify learning and development activities to meet individual needs and preferences
  • Plan learning and development activities with individuals
  • Prepare for learning and development activities
  • Facilitate learning and development activities with individuals
  • Evaluate and review learning and development activities
Facilitate the development of effective group practice in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how groups develop and function in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
  • Create a climate that facilitates effective groups in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
  • Facilitate a group in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
  • 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
  • Monitor and review the work of a group in health and social c
Facilitate the learning and development of children and young people through mentoringReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to facilitate the learning and development needs of children and young people through mentoring
  • Support children and young people to address their individual learning and development needs
  • Promote the wellbeing, resilience and achievement of individual children and young people through mentoring
  • Review the effectiveness of the mentoring process
Identify and act upon immediate risk of danger to substance misusersReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify immediate risk of danger to substance misusers
  • Act upon immediate risk of danger to substance misusers
Implement therapeutic group activitiesReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of therapeutic group activities
  • Plan and prepare for therapeutic group activities
  • Support individuals during therapeutic group activities
  • Contribute to the evaluation of therapeutic group activities
Improving the attendance of children and young people in statutory educationReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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
  • Use attendance data to inform strategies and plans to improve attendance of children and young people in statutory education
  • Support work with children, young people and families to improve attendance according to role and responsibilities
Increase awareness about drugs, alcohol or other substances with individuals and groupsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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
Lead and manage a community based early years setting.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the purposes, benefits and key features of community based early years provision
  • Lead the team in a community based early years setting
  • Engage parents as partners in the community based early years setting
  • Engage parents in the management/decision making processes of an early years setting
  • Provide learning opportunities to support parents’ participation in a community based early years setting
  • Manage the resource, regulatory and financial requirements for a community based early years setting
Manage induction in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the purpose of induction for health and social care or children and young people’s settings
  • Manage the induction process in health, social care and children and young people’s work settings
  • Support the implementation of induction processes in health, social care and children and young people’s work settings
  • Evaluate the induction process in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
  • Implement improvements to the induction process in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
Practise as a Foster CarerReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Prepare to accommodate children or young people in their own home.
  • Support children and young people to settle into the family home.
  • Provide a safe home environment for children and young people accessing foster care.
  • Support family and other key people to adjust to family life with children and young people accessing foster care.
  • Work effectively as a member of a professional team and wider community to meet the needs of children and young people in foster care.
Principles for implementing duty of care in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settingsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice
  • Address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and the duty of care
  • Respond to complaints
Professional Practice in learning, development and support servicesReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the purposes of learning, development and support services
  • Understand current legislation, policies and influences on LDSS
  • 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
  • Use supervision to support continuing professional development and personal effectiveness
  • Reflect on own skills, knowledge and effectiveness to inform and improve own practice
Professional practice in children and young people’s social careReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the legislation and policy framework for working with children and young people in social care work settings
  • Understand the professional responsibilities of working with children and young people
  • Meet professional responsibilities by reflecting on own performance and practice
  • 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
Professional practice in early years settings.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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.
  • Review own practice inpromoting diversity, inclusionand participation in early yearssettings.
Promote Child and Young Person Development.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Assess the development needs of children or young people and prepare a development plan.
  • Promote the development of children or young people.
  • 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.
  • Support children and young people’s positive behaviour.
  • Support children and young people experiencing transitions.
Promote children’s welfare and well being in the early years.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the welfare requirements of the relevant early years framework.
  • Keep early years children safe in the work setting.
  • Understand the importance of promoting positive health and well being for early years children.
  • 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.
  • Provide physical care for children.
Promote communication in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settingsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting
  • Meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals
  • Overcome barriers to communication
  • Apply principles and practices relating to confidentiality
Promote creativity and creative learning in young children.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the concepts of creativity and creative learning and how these affect all aspects of young children’s learning and development
  • Provide opportunities for young children to develop their creativity and creative learning
  • Develop the environment to support young children’s creativity and creative learning
  • Support the development of practice in promoting young children’s creativity and creative learning within the setting
Promote equality and inclusion in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settingsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion
  • Work in an inclusive way
  • Promote diversity, equality and inclusion
Promote learning and development in the early years.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the purpose and requirements of the areas of learning and development in the relevant early years framework.
  • Plan work with children and support children’s participation in planning.
  • Promote children’s learning and development according to the requirements of the relevant early years framework.
  • Engage with children in activities and experiences that support their learning and development.
  • Review own practice in supporting the learning and development of children in their early years.
Promote nutrition and hydration in early years and childcare settingsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of a balanced diet for children.
  • Plan and promote a balanced diet for children.
  • Understand the principles of hydration for babies and children.
  • 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.
  • Contribute to the monitoring of nutrition and hydration for babies or children.
Promote nutrition and hydration in health and social care settingsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand what makes up a balanced diet.
  • Understand nutritional guidelines.
  • Promote nutrition in health and social care settings.
  • Promote hydration in health and social care settings.
  • Understand how to prevent malnutrition in health and social care settings.
  • Carry out nutritional screening in health and social care settings.
  • 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.
Promote positive behaviourReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how legislation, frameworks, codes of practice and policies relate to positive behaviour support.
  • Understand the context and use of proactive and reactive strategies.
  • Promote positive behaviour.
  • Respond appropriately to incidents of challenging behaviour.
  • Support individuals and others following an incident of challenging behaviour.
  • Review and revise approaches to promoting positive behaviour.
Promote the well being and resilience of children and young peopleReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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
  • Provide children and young people with a positive outlook on their lives
  • Respond to the health needs of children and young people
Promote young children’s physical activity and movement skills.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of physical activity and the development of movement skills for young children’s development, health and well being
  • Prepare and support a safe and challenging environment for young children that encourages physical activity and the development of movement skills
  • Plan and implement physical activities for young children
  • Build opportunities for physical activity into everyday routines for young children
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of provision in supporting young children’s physical activity and movement skills
Provide information and advice to children and young peopleReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of practitioners in providing information and advice to children and young people
  • Establish and address the information and advice needs of children and young people
  • Provide children and young people with appropriate information and advice to enable them to make informed choices
Provide support to children or young people who have experienced harm or abuseReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of self and others when supporting children or young people who have experienced harm or abuse.
  • Support children or young people who disclose harm or abuse.
  • Support children or young people who have experienced harm or abuse.
  • Work with others to support the safe involvement of key people with children or young people who have experienced harm or abuse.
Provide support to continue recommended therapiesReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of supporting individuals to continue recommended therapies
  • Encourage individuals to complete activities recommended by therapists
  • Support individuals to continue recommended therapy
  • Observe, record and report on observations during recommended therapy
  • Contribute to evaluation and review of recommended therapies
Recognise indications of substance misuse and refer individuals to specialistsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Recognise indications of substance misuse.
  • Assess and monitor risk.
  • Handle information and maintain records.
  • Refer individuals to appropriate services.
Support Care within fostering services for vulnerable children and young people.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of support care in fostering services for vulnerable children, young people and carers
  • Offer support care within fostering services to a vulnerable child or young people
  • Support carers of vulnerable children or young people
Support Children and Young People's Health and Safety.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to plan and provide environments and services that support children and young people’s health and safety.
  • 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.
Support Individuals With Specific Communication NeedsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand specific communication needs and factors affecting them
  • Contribute to establishing the nature of specific communication needs of individuals and ways to address them
  • Interact with individuals using their preferred communication
  • Promote communication between individuals and others
  • Support the use of communication technology and aids
  • Review an individual’s communication needs and the support provided to address them
Support children and young people to achieve their education potentialReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles, values and current legislation that supports work to help children and young people achieve their educational potential
  • Support children and young people to identify and articulate their learning needs, set goals and plan actions
  • Support children and young people to work towards their educational goals
  • Review educational achievements with children and young people
Support children and young people to achieve their learning potentialReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the legislation and policies that underpin education and learning for children and young people
  • Support children and young people to work out what they want to learn and achieve
  • Work with children and young people to make the most of learning opportunities
  • Work with others to support children and young people to achieve the best possible outcomes from learning opportunities
Support children and young people to have positive relationshipsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of positive relationships for the development and well being of children and young people
  • Support children and young people to make and maintain positive relationships
  • Understand how to support children and young people when there are relationship difficulties
Support children and young people to make positive changes in their livesReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to support children and young people to make positive changes in their lives
  • Support children and young people to make positive changes in their lives
  • Review support to children and young people to make positive changes in their lives
Support children and young people’s speech, language and communication skills.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance and the benefits of adults supporting the speech, language and communication development of children and young people
  • Provide support for the speech, language and communication development of children and young people
  • Understand how environments support speech, language and communication
  • Recognise, and obtain additional support for, children and young people who may have speech, language and communication needs
Support children or young people in their own home.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand roles and responsibilities in relation to supporting children or young people in their own home
  • Build positive relationships with children or young people and their carers when working in their home
  • Provide support for children or young people to engage in activities that meet their needs and preferences
Support children’s knowledge and understanding of the worldReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of knowledge and understanding of the world for children’s learning.
  • Use assessments to develop plans for children’s knowledge and understanding of the world.
  • Use activities for the development of children’s knowledge and understanding of the world.
  • Reflect on own performance in supporting the development of children’s knowledge and understanding of the world.
Support children’s language, literacy and communicationReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of language, litreacy and communication for children’s learning.
  • Use assessments to develop plans for language, litreacy and communication development.
  • Use activities for the development of children’s language, litreacy and communication.
  • Reflect on own performance in supporting the development of children’s language, litreacy and communication.
Support children’s learning in ICTReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of ICT for children’s learning.
  • Use assessments to develop plans for ICT skills development.
  • Use activities for children’s ICT skills development.
  • Reflect on own performance in supporting children’s’ ICT skills development.
Support children’s mathematical developmentReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of mathematical development for children’s learning.
  • Use assessments to develop plans for mathematical development.
  • Use activities for children’s mathematical development.
  • Reflect on own performance in supporting children’s mathematical development.
Support children’s outdoor playReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of outdoor play for children’s health, learning and development.
  • Use assessments to develop plans to support outdoor play.
  • Use activities for the development of children’s outdoor play.
  • Reflect on own performance in supporting the development of children’s outdoor play.
Support children’s physical development through activitiesReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of physical development for children’s learning.
  • Plan and organise an effective environment to support physical development.
  • Use activities for children's physical development.
  • Reflect on own performance in supporting physical development.
Support children’s speech, language and communication.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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.
  • Provide support for the speech, language and communication development of the children in own setting.
  • Contribute to maintaining a positive environment that supports speech, language and communication.
Support disabled children and young people and those with specific requirements.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of working inclusively with disabled children and young people and those with specific requirements
  • Work in partnership with families with disabled children or young people and those with specific requirements
  • Support age and developmentally appropriate learning, play or leisure opportunities for disabled children or young people and those with specific requirements
  • Evaluate, support and develop existing practice with disabled children and young people and those with specific requirements
  • Understand how to work in partnership with
Support families in maintaining relationships in their wider social structuresReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of social interactions and relationships for families of people with specific needs
  • Understand the issues surrounding discrimination
  • Support families to access opportunities for social contact within their wider social structures
  • Support families to maintain social contacts within their wider social structures
Support individuals in their relationshipsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand factors affecting the capacity of individuals to develop and/or maintain relationships.
  • Support individuals to identify beneficial relationships.
  • Support individuals to develop new relationships.
  • Support individuals to maintain existing relationships.
  • Work with individuals to review the support provided for relationships.
Support individuals to deal with personal relationship problemsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Support individuals to assess relationship problems.
  • Support individuals to overcome relationship problems.
  • Know how and when to access specialist support about relationship problems.
  • Support individuals to end unhelpful relationships.
  • Evaluate the support provided for relationship problems.
Support individuals to live at homeReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of supporting individuals to live at home
  • Contribute to planning support for living at home
  • Work with individuals to secure additional services and facilities to enable them to live at home
  • Work in partnership to introduce additional services for individuals living at home
  • Contribute to reviewing support for living at home
Support individuals to stay safe from harm or abuseReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how legislative frameworks support the safeguarding of individuals.
  • Support individuals to gain understanding of behaviours and situations that may make them vulnerable to harm or abuse.
  • Support individuals to gain understanding about how to stay safe.
  • Work in ways that support individuals to stay safe.
Support individuals who are bereavedReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the effects of bereavement on individuals
  • Understand principles for supporting individuals who are bereaved
  • Support individuals to express their response to loss
  • Support individuals who are bereaved
  • Understand the role of specialist agencies in supporting individuals who are bereaved
  • Manage own feelings when providing support for individuals who are bereaved
Support individuals who are substance users.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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.
Support individuals with autistic spectrum conditionsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand legislative frameworks that relate to individuals with autistic spectrum conditions.
  • Understand the main characteristics of autistic spectrum conditions.
  • Support individuals with autistic spectrum conditions.
  • Support individuals with autistic spectrum condition with verbal and non-verbal communication.
  • Support individuals with transitions and change.
Support positive attachments for children and young peopleReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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.
  • Promote positive attachments for children or young people.
  • Develop own practice in supporting positive attachments for children or young people.
Support positive practice with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the concept of positive practice when working with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs
  • Work alongside speech, language and communication specialists to use appropriate strategies and targets to support children and young people
  • 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
Support speech, language and communication development.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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
  • Identify typical speech, language and communication development of children and young people
Support the creativity of children and young peopleReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how creativity promotes well being for children and young people
  • Encourage children and young people to recognise and value their own and others’ creativity
  • Support children and young people to take part in creative activities
  • Participate in creative, day to day activities with children and young people
Support the development of positive behaviour in childrenReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand principles of supporting the development of positive behaviour in children.
  • Establish behavioural goals and boundaries with children.
  • Support children to understand their behaviour.
  • Support children to achieve behavioural goals and adhere to agreed boundaries.
Support the referral process for children and young peopleReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the referral options that are available for children and young people
  • Work with children and young people in order to encourage their participation in the referral process.
  • Support children and young people through the referral process
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the referral process suggesting improvements
Support the speech, language and communication development of children who are learning more than one language.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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
  • Work with parents of children and young people whose home language is not English
  • Work with others in order to support the speech, language and communication development of children and young people whose home language is not English
Support use of medication in social care settingsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the legislative framework 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
  • Receive, store and dispose of medication supplies safely
  • Promote the rights of the individual when managing medication
  • Support use of medication
  • Record and report on use of medication
Support young people in relation to sexual health and risk of pregnancyReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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
Support young people to develop, implement and review a plan of actionReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance for young people of developing a personal action plan for their future development needs
  • Support young people to develop an action plan
  • Support young people to work towards implementation of their action plan
  • Support young people to review and revise their action plan
  • Review own role in supporting the development and implementation of the young person’s action plan
Support young people to move towards independence and manage their livesReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the way that young people move from dependence to independence
  • Prepare young people for the practical challenges of independence
  • Prepare young people for the emotional challenges of independence
  • Prepare young people to assess personal risks and protect themselves
Support young people who are involved in anti-social and/or criminal activitiesReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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
Support young people who are looked after or are leaving careReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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
Support young people who are socially excluded or excluded from schoolReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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
Support young people with mental health problemsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the issues affecting young people with mental health problems
  • Understand how to support young people with mental health problems
  • Know about the statutory and legal frameworks in relation to young people with mental health problems
Supporting infection prevention and control in social careReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how infection prevention and control policies and guidelines can be applied within different settings.
  • Support infection prevention and control practices in the work setting.
  • Minimise the risk and spread of infection when using equipment.
  • Understand how to respond to outbreaks of infection in the work setting.
  • Follow correct recording and reporting procedures regarding infection prevention and control.
Understand Child and Young Person Development.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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.
Understand How to Safeguard the Wellbeing of Children and Young People.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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
Understand How to Support Positive Outcomes for Children and Young People.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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.
Understand how to set up a home based childcare service.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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 p
Understand the context of supporting children and young people through foster careReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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.
Understand the needs of children and young people who are vulnerable and experiencing poverty and disadvantage.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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 disadvanta
Understand the speech, language and communication needs of children and young people with behavioural, social and emotional difficulties.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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
  • 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
Understanding professional supervision practiceReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • 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
Work with babies and young children to promote their development and learning.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the development and learning of babies and young children
  • Promote the development and learning of babies and young children
  • Understand the attachment needs of babies and young children
  • Engage with babies and young children and be sensitive to their needs
  • Work in partnership with carers in order to promote the learning and development of babies and young children
Work with children and young people in a residential care settingReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the legal, policy, rights and theoretical framework for residential care for children and young people
  • Understand own role and professional responsibilities in a residential care setting
  • Work with children and young people through the day to day activities involved in sharing a living space
  • Work with children and young people in a residential setting
  • Safeguard children and young people in a residential care setting
Work with parents to meet their children’s needsReal unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the nature of the parent andchild relationship
  • 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.
Work with parents, families and carers to support their children’s speech, language and communication development.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of parental support for the development of speech, language and communication
  • Work in partnership with parents to support their child’s speech, language and communication development
  • 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
Working Together for the Benefit of Children and Young People.Real unit · Pearson EDI

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand integrated and multi agency working.
  • Communicate with others for professional purposes.
  • Support organisational processes and procedures for recording, storing and sharing information.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

Your passport

Every credit is a stamp you keep

Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.

Assessment and planning with children and young peopleCare for the physical and nutritional needs of babies and young children.Caseload managementContext and principles for early years provision.Contribute to effective team working in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsCoordinate special educational needs provision.Develop Positive Relationship with Children, Young People and Others Involved in Their CareDevelop and sustain effective working relationships with staff in other agencies

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

The Evidence Evaluator

Assessor

Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.

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Pearson EDI Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People's Workforce (QCF)
  • Assist young people to express and to realise their goals
  • Contribute to positive relationships
  • Contribute to the work of a team
  • Develop Inter-agency, Cross-sector Working
  • Develop Own Practice in Promoting Physical Activity
  • Develop and Undertake Inter-Agency Cross-Sector Working
  • Develop and Undertake Inter-Agency, Cross-Sector Working
  • Develop and promote positive relationships
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

Where this can lead

Lead, Community Relations & Social Impact

Ultimately, your career path here is what you make it. We're looking for someone who wants to grow, learn, and genuinely make a difference. If you bring that drive and commitment, we'll provide the opportunities and support to help you get there.

See the whole journey →

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Skills it covers

What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

Assist young people to express and to realise their goalsContribute to positive relationshipsContribute to the work of a teamContribute to the work of a teamDevelop Inter-agency, Cross-sector WorkingDevelop Own Practice in Promoting Physical ActivityDevelop and Undertake Inter-Agency Cross-Sector WorkingDevelop and Undertake Inter-Agency, Cross-Sector WorkingDevelop and promote positive relationshipsDevelop and sustain effective working with staff from other agenciesEnable access to future learning and development opportunitiesEnable children and young people to access information and to make decisionsEnable children and young people, and those involved in their care, to manage prescribed medicationEnable young people to use their learning to enhance their future developmentEstablish, sustain and disengage from relationships with the families of children and young peopleMake use of SupervisionMake use of SupervisionPlan, prepare and facilitate group work with children and young people+7 more

How you’ll actually learn this

One-to-one, on your own real work

A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Assessment and planning with children and young peopleLevel 3

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
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Built for Pearson EDI Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People's Workforce (QCF)

98 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson EDI.

  1. Assessment and planning with children and young people
  2. Care for the physical and nutritional needs of babies and young children.
  3. Caseload management
  4. Context and principles for early years provision.
  5. Contribute to effective team working in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
  6. Coordinate special educational needs provision.

and 92 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

Why it sticks

Most courses stop at remembering

There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

The value

Why the companion is worth £70 a month

You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.

That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.

Earned on your own work, taught to the top.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.

Build my plan, free

No card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.