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- The centre assesses, and Innovate Awarding awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Innovate Awarding.
The Level 3 diploma is for individuals working with children and young people. It covers topics such as supporting looked-after young people, promoting development in babies and young children, and providing information and advice. The qualification is relevant to the child development and well-being sector.
These are the units Innovate Awarding 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Assessment and planning with children and young people Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Explain how to place children and young people at the centre of assessment and planning processes
- Describe methods for ensuring the child or young person's voice is heard and respected
- Participate in assessment and planning activities for children and young people, contributing to the achievement of positive outcomes
- Collaborate with other professionals and family members in the assessment and planning process
- Work with children and young people to implement the plan, supporting them towards the achievement of positive outcomes
- Monitor the progress of children and young people in relation to the plan
- Work with children and young people to review and update plans, ensuring they remain relevant and effective
Care for the physical and nutritional needs of babies and young children. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Provide respectful physical care for babies and young children, ensuring their comfort and hygiene needs are met.
- Provide routines for babies and young children that support their health and development, including feeding, sleeping, and nappy changing.
- Provide opportunities for exercise and physical activity for babies and young children, promoting their physical development and coordination.
- Provide safe and protective environments for babies and young children, minimising risks and ensuring their well-being.
- Provide for the nutritional needs of babies under 18 months, following guidelines on breastfeeding, formula feeding, and weaning.
- Understand how to provide for the nutritional needs of young children from 18-36 months, planning balanced meals and snacks that meet their developmental requirements.
Caseload management Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of effective caseload management in a professional context.
- Prioritise cases within a personal caseload based on urgency and risk.
- Understand how to review and evaluate the effectiveness of the case management process, identifying areas for improvement.
Context and principles for early years provision. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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.
Coordinate special educational needs provision. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the role and responsibilities of the special educational needs coordinator (SENCO)
- Describe the legal and policy framework relating to special educational needs
- Coordinate the observation, recording, assessment, and planning processes to meet the individual requirements of children with special educational needs
- Implement strategies for identifying and addressing the specific needs of children with SEN
- Engage with children with special educational needs and their carers, building positive and supportive relationships
- Communicate effectively with children, carers, and other professionals
- Coordinate, support, and advise colleagues working with children who have special educational needs, promoting inclusive practice
- Provide guidance and training to colleagues on SEN issues
Develop Positive Relationship with Children, Young People and Others Involved in Their Care Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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 interviewing skills for work with children and young people Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of preparing for and planning interviews with children and young people, including ethical considerations and data protection
- Conduct interviews with individual children or young people, using appropriate communication techniques and creating a safe and supportive environment
- Implement interview follow-up procedures, including documenting findings, providing feedback, and making referrals as necessary
Enable parents to develop ways of handling relationships and behaviour that contribute to everyday life with children Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Enable parents to understand and respond to children’s feelings and behaviours, using appropriate communication and support techniques.
- Understand how to support parents to interact with their children in positive ways, promoting healthy attachment and communication.
- Understand how to develop parents’ knowledge of how to support children’s play, learning and creativity, providing resources and guidance on age-appropriate activities.
- Understand how to work with parents to find positive ways to meet children’s physical needs, including nutrition, hygiene, and safety.
- 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, identifying areas for improvement and seeking professional development opportunities.
Engage fathers in their children’s early learning Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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 early learning
- Understand the barriers to fathers being involved in their children’s early learning
- Understand how to use reflection to challenge and develop existing practice in working with fathers to support their children’s early learning
Engage in personal development in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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 learning Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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 development Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the context of pregnancy and parenthood for young 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 with their child’s needs and development.
Facilitate the learning and development of children and young people through mentoring Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to facilitate the learning and development needs of children and young people through mentoring, considering different learning styles and individual circumstances.
- Support children and young people to address their individual learning and development needs through mentoring, providing guidance and encouragement.
- Promote the wellbeing, resilience and achievement of individual children and young people through mentoring, fostering a positive and supportive relationship.
- Review the effectiveness of the mentoring process, evaluating progress and identifying areas for improvement.
Improving the attendance of children and young people in statutory education Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the various factors that can impact the attendance of children and young people in statutory education.
- Understand the specific roles of individuals and agencies involved in improving the attendance of children and young people in statutory education.
- Analyse attendance data to inform the development of strategies and plans aimed at improving the attendance of children and young people.
- Provide support, according to role and responsibilities, to children, young people, and their families to improve attendance.
Lead and manage a community based early years setting. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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.
Practise as a Foster Carer Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to accommodate children or young people in their own home, ensuring a safe and welcoming environment
- Complete necessary checks and assessments prior to placement
- Support children and young people to settle into the family home, addressing their emotional and practical needs
- Provide a safe home environment for children and young people accessing foster care, adhering to relevant policies and procedures
- Implement safeguarding measures to protect children and young people from harm
- Support family and other key people to adjust to family life with children and young people accessing foster care, facilitating positive relationships
- Work effectively as a member of a professional team and wider community to meet the needs of children and young people in foster care, collaborating with relevant agencies and individuals
Principles for implementing duty of care in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how the principles of duty of care contribute to safe practice within health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings
- Address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and the duty of care in specific situations
- Respond appropriately to complaints in line with organisational policies and procedures
Professional Practice in learning, development and support services Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purposes of learning, development and support services within the relevant context.
- Understand current legislation, policies and influences on learning, development and support services.
- Implement the current principles and values that underpin and inform the work of learning, development and support services 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 care Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relevant legislation and policy framework that governs working with children and young people in social care work settings.
- Understand the professional responsibilities associated with working with children and young people in a social care context.
- Meet professional responsibilities by reflecting on own performance and practice, identifying areas for development and improvement.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with professional colleagues, fostering collaboration and communication.
- Understand the implications of equalities legislation for working with children, young people, and their families, ensuring fair and equitable treatment.
- Understand the value of diversity and the importance of equality and anti-discriminatory practice in all aspects of work with children, young people, and families.
Professional practice in early years settings. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the scope and purposes of the early years sector, including its aims and objectives.
- Understand current policies and influences that shape and impact the early years sector.
- Understand how to effectively support diversity, inclusion, and participation within early years settings.
- Review own practice in promoting diversity, inclusion, and participation in early years settings, identifying areas for improvement.
Promote Child and Young Person Development. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the development needs of children and prepare a development plan.
- Assess the development needs of young people and prepare a development plan.
- Promote the development of children.
- Promote the development of young people.
- Support the provision of environments that promote the development of children.
- Support the provision of environments that promote the development of young people.
- Support the provision of services that promote the development of children.
- Support the provision of services that promote the development of young people.
- Understand how working practices can impact on the development of children.
- Understand how working practices can impact on the development of young people.
- Support children’s positive behaviour.
- Support young people’s positive behaviour.
- Support children experiencing transitions.
- Support young people experiencing transitions.
Promote children’s welfare and well being in the early years. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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 settings Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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 · Innovate Awarding
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 settings Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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 · Innovate Awarding
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, including statutory guidance and best practice.
- Plan work with children and support children’s participation in planning activities and experiences that promote their learning and development.
- Promote children’s learning and development according to the requirements of the relevant early years framework, ensuring activities are age-appropriate and meet individual needs.
- Engage with children in activities and experiences that support their learning and development, using effective communication and interaction techniques.
- Review own practice in supporting the learning and development of children in their early years, identifying areas for improvement and professional development.
Promote positive behaviour Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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 people Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of promoting positive well being and resilience of children and young people, recognising the factors that contribute to their emotional and mental health.
- Understand how to support the development of children and young people’s social and emotional identity and self esteem in line with their age and level of understanding, promoting positive self-image and confidence.
- Provide children and young people with a positive outlook on their lives, encouraging them to develop coping mechanisms and strategies for dealing with challenges.
- Respond to the health needs of children and young people, recognising signs of illness and knowing when to seek professional medical advice.
Promote young children’s physical activity and movement skills. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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 a safe and challenging environment for young children that encourages physical activity and the development of movement skills.
- Support a safe and challenging environment for young children that encourages physical activity and the development of movement skills.
- Plan physical activities for young children.
- 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 people Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of practitioners in providing information and advice to children and young people.
- Establish the information and advice needs of children and young people.
- 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.
Support Care within fostering services for vulnerable children and young people. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of support care in fostering services for vulnerable children, young people and carers, including the legal and ethical frameworks.
- Offer support care within fostering services to a vulnerable child or young people, providing practical and emotional support tailored to their individual needs.
- Support carers of vulnerable children or young people, offering guidance, respite, and access to resources to promote their well-being and ability to provide a safe and nurturing environment.
Support Children and Young People's Health and Safety. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to plan environments that support children and young people’s health and safety.
- Understand how to provide services that support children and young people’s health and safety.
- Recognise risks to health, safety and security in a work setting.
- Recognise risks to health, safety and security during off site visits.
- Manage risks to health, safety and security in a work setting.
- Manage risks to health, safety and security during off site visits.
- Understand how to support children and young people to assess risk for themselves.
- Understand how to support children and young people to manage risk for themselves.
- Understand appropriate responses to accidents in work settings and off site visits.
- Understand appropriate responses to incidents in work settings and off site visits.
- Understand appropriate responses to emergencies in work settings and off site visits.
- Understand appropriate responses to illness in work settings and off site visits.
Support children and young people to achieve their education potential Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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, including relevant policies and frameworks
- Support children and young people to identify and articulate their learning needs, set realistic goals, and plan appropriate actions to achieve them
- Support children and young people to work towards their educational goals, providing encouragement, guidance, and practical assistance as needed
- Review educational achievements with children and young people, providing constructive feedback and celebrating successes
Support children and young people to achieve their learning potential Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relevant legislation and policies that underpin education and learning for children and young people.
- Support children and young people to identify and articulate their desired learning outcomes and achievements.
- Work collaboratively with children and young people to maximise their learning opportunities.
- Collaborate with other professionals and stakeholders to support children and young people in achieving the best possible outcomes from their learning experiences.
Support children and young people to have positive relationships Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of positive relationships for the development and well-being of children and young people, including the impact of attachment, social skills, and emotional regulation.
- Support children and young people to make and maintain positive relationships with peers, family members, and other adults.
- Understand how to support children and young people when there are relationship difficulties, including conflict resolution, bullying prevention, and support for victims of abuse.
Support children and young people to make positive changes in their lives Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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 · Innovate Awarding
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 children and young people who may have speech, language and communication needs.
- 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 · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand roles and responsibilities in relation to supporting children or young people in their own home, including safeguarding procedures and boundaries
- Build positive relationships with children or young people and their carers when working in their home, demonstrating empathy, respect, and effective communication skills
- Provide support for children or young people to engage in activities that meet their needs and preferences, promoting their well-being and development
Support children’s speech, language and communication. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of speech, language, and communication for children’s overall development and well-being.
- Understand the importance and benefits of adults actively supporting the speech, language, and communication development of children within the setting.
- Provide practical support for the speech, language, and communication development of children within the setting.
- Contribute to maintaining a positive and stimulating environment that effectively supports speech, language, and communication development.
Support disabled children and young people and those with specific requirements. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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 other agencies and professionals to support provision for disabled children and young people and those with specific requirements.
Support positive attachments for children and young people Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of positive attachment for the well-being of children and young people, including the impact on their development and future relationships.
- Understand how resilience can reduce the vulnerability of children and young people to separation and loss, and the factors that contribute to resilience.
- Promote positive attachments for children or young people through appropriate interactions and activities.
- Develop own practice in supporting positive attachments for children or young people, reflecting on own behaviour and seeking opportunities for improvement.
Support positive practice with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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 · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of speech, language and communication for children’s overall development, including cognitive, social, and emotional development.
- Understand typical speech, language and communication development in children and young people, including milestones and variations.
- Identify typical speech, language and communication development of children and young people, recognising when further support or intervention may be required.
Support the creativity of children and young people Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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 referral process for children and young people Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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 · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the speech, language, and communication assessment process specifically for children and young people who are learning more than one language.
- Understand the cultural issues that may arise when assessing and supporting the speech, language, and communication development of children and young people who are learning more than one language.
- Work effectively with parents of children and young people whose home language is not English to support their child's development.
- Work collaboratively with others, including professionals and support staff, 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 settings Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legislative framework for the use of medication in social care settings, including relevant laws, regulations, and guidelines.
- Know about common types of medication and their use, including their purpose, dosage, side effects, and potential interactions.
- Understand roles and responsibilities in the use of medication in social care settings, including those of the individual, care workers, and healthcare professionals.
- Understand techniques for administering medication, including different routes of administration and safety precautions.
- Receive, store, and dispose of medication supplies safely, following established procedures and guidelines.
- Promote the rights of the individual when managing medication, including their right to information, choice, and refusal.
- Support use of medication, ensuring that it is administered correctly and safely, and that the individual's needs are met.
- Record and report on use of medication, maintaining accurate records and reporting any adverse reactions or errors.
Support young people in relation to sexual health and risk of pregnancy Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the issues affecting young people in relation to sexual health and the risk of pregnancy, including relevant factors and potential consequences.
- Understand how to support young people in relation to sexual health and the risk of pregnancy, providing appropriate information, advice, and guidance.
Support young people to develop, implement and review a plan of action Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance for young people of developing a personal action plan for their future development needs, including the benefits of setting goals and identifying steps to achieve them.
- Support young people to develop an action plan, providing guidance and resources to help them identify their goals and create a realistic plan.
- Support young people to work towards implementation of their action plan, offering encouragement and practical assistance to overcome obstacles.
- Support young people to review and revise their action plan, helping them to assess their progress and make adjustments as needed.
- Review own role in supporting the development and implementation of the young person’s action plan, reflecting on own effectiveness and identifying areas for improvement.
Support young people to move towards independence and manage their lives Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the way that young people move from dependence to independence, considering the different stages and factors involved.
- Prepare young people for the practical challenges of independence, such as managing finances, housing, and employment.
- Prepare young people for the emotional challenges of independence, such as building resilience, managing stress, and forming healthy relationships.
- Prepare young people to assess personal risks and protect themselves from harm, including online safety, exploitation, and substance misuse.
Support young people who are involved in anti-social and/or criminal activities Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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 care Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the issues affecting young people who are looked after or leaving care, including their emotional, social, and educational needs.
- Understand how to support young people who are looked after or leaving care, providing appropriate guidance, advice, and practical assistance.
- Know about the statutory and legal frameworks in relation to young people who are looked after or leaving care, including relevant legislation and guidance.
Support young people who are socially excluded or excluded from school Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the various issues and challenges affecting young people who are socially excluded or excluded from school, including potential causes and consequences.
- Understand how to provide appropriate support to young people who are socially excluded or excluded from school, taking into account their individual needs and circumstances.
Support young people with mental health problems Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the issues affecting young people with mental health problems, including the causes, symptoms, and impact on their lives.
- Understand how to support young people with mental health problems, including providing emotional support, signposting to appropriate services, and promoting positive mental health.
- Know about the statutory and legal frameworks in relation to young people with mental health problems, including safeguarding procedures and confidentiality requirements.
Understand Child and Young Person Development. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth to 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 · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key aspects of main legislation relating to safeguarding children and young people
- Understand the key aspects of guidelines relating to safeguarding children and young people
- Understand the key aspects of policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people in the work setting
- Understand the importance of working in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children and young people effectively
- Understand the procedures for ensuring children and young people’s safety and protection in the work setting
- Understand how to recognise evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed
- Understand the procedures for responding to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed
- Understand how to recognise evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been bullied
- Understand the procedures for responding to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been bullied
- Understand how to work with children and young people to promote their safety and wellbeing
- Understand the importance of promoting e-safety for children and young people
Understand How to Support Positive Outcomes for Children and Young People. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
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 · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal and regulatory requirements for setting up a home based childcare service.
- Understand how to establish a safe and healthy home based environment for children, including risk assessment and safeguarding procedures.
- Understand the importance of building and maintaining partnerships with parents for all aspects of the home based childcare service, including communication strategies.
- Understand the principles of developing and implementing routines for home based child care that support children's individual needs.
- Understand how to provide play and other activities for children in home based settings that will support equality and inclusion, taking into account diverse backgrounds and abilities.
- Understand how home based childcarers can support the safeguarding of children in their care, including recognising and reporting concerns.
- Understand the principles of supporting positive behaviour in home based childcare settings, including strategies for managing challenging behaviour.
Understand the context of supporting children and young people through foster care Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range of circumstances that can lead to children and young people needing to access foster care services.
- Know the specific information that should be provided to foster carers prior to placements being formally arranged.
- Understand how relevant legislation, policies, and procedures relate to the provision of foster care services.
- Understand how foster care can make a positive difference to the lives of children and young people in care.
- Understand the importance of positive and supportive relationships for children and young people accessing foster care.
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of a foster carer when working collaboratively with birth families, other carers, and relevant professionals.
Understand the needs of children and young people who are vulnerable and experiencing poverty and disadvantage. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the various factors that may impact on the outcomes and life chances of children and young people
- Understand how poverty affects children and young people’s physical development
- Understand how disadvantage affects children and young people’s social and emotional development
- Understand the importance of early intervention strategies for children and young people who are disadvantaged and vulnerable
- Understand the importance of support networks in improving outcomes for children and young people who are experiencing poverty and disadvantage
- Understand the importance of partnership working with other agencies in improving outcomes for children and young people who are experiencing poverty and disadvantage
- Understand the role of the practitioner in identifying and supporting children and young people who are vulnerable and experiencing poverty and disadvantage
Understand the speech, language and communication needs of children and young people with behavioural, social and emotional difficulties. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the links between language development, behaviour, and emotional and social development difficulties in children and young people
- 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 related to behavioural, emotional and social development to effectively meet speech, language and communication needs
- Work collaboratively with others, including professionals and parents/carers, in order to support the speech, language and communication development of children and young people with behavioural, emotional and social development needs
Work with babies and young children to promote their development and learning. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the development and learning of babies and young children, including key milestones and individual differences.
- Promote the development and learning of babies and young children through play, activities, and interactions.
- Understand the attachment needs of babies and young children and how to support secure attachments.
- Engage with babies and young children and be sensitive to their needs, responding appropriately to their cues and signals.
- Work in partnership with carers in order to promote the learning and development of babies and young children, sharing information and working collaboratively.
Work with children and young people in a residential care setting Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Summarise the legal, policy, rights and theoretical framework for residential care for children and young people
- Explain the key legislation and guidance relevant to residential care
- Describe own role and professional responsibilities in a residential care setting, adhering to organisational policies and procedures
- Work with children and young people through the day to day activities involved in sharing a living space, promoting their independence and well-being
- Support children and young people with their personal care, meals, and leisure activities
- Work with children and young people in a residential setting, building positive relationships and providing emotional support
- Implement strategies for managing challenging behaviour
- Safeguard children and young people in a residential care setting, responding appropriately to concerns and disclosures
Work with parents to meet their children’s needs Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of the parent and child relationship, including factors that influence it
- Work with parents to understand the nature of the parent and child relationship, taking into account diverse family structures and circumstances
- Understand how to work with parents to provide age-appropriate support for a specified age group of children, considering their developmental needs
- Understand how to reflect on own practice in working with parents to meet their children’s needs, identifying areas for improvement and professional development
Work with parents, families and carers to support their children’s speech, language and communication development. Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of parental support for the development of speech, language and communication in children.
- 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 · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and importance of integrated and multi-agency working in the context of children and young people's well-being
- Communicate effectively with others for professional purposes, using appropriate methods and maintaining confidentiality
- Support organisational processes and procedures for accurately recording, securely storing, and appropriately sharing information related to children and young people
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Assist young people to express and to realise their goals
- Standard
Enable children and young people, and those involved in their care, to manage prescribed medication
- Standard
Plan Multi-disciplinary Assessment of the Health and Well-being of Children and Young People
- Standard
Work with children and young people to agree the nature and purpose of assessment of their health and well-being
The credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Innovate Awarding rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
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.Coordinate special educational needs provision.Develop Positive Relationship with Children, Young People and Others Involved in Their CareDevelop interviewing skills for work with children and young peopleEnable parents to develop ways of handling relationships and behaviour that contribute to everyday life with children
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
- Rehearse the conversation Apply
“Develop interviewing skills for work with children and young people” is a conversation before it is a document. You have it with Zavmo playing the other person, badly at first, then again once you know what you actually want to say.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Assessment and planning with children and young people” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Promote equality and inclusion in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Caseload management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Assist young people to express and to realise their goals
- Enable children and young people, and those involved in their care, to manage prescribed medication
- Plan Multi-disciplinary Assessment of the Health and Well-being of Children and Young People
- Work with children and young people to agree the nature and purpose of assessment of their health and well-being
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Assessment and planning with children and young people, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
Learners will understand the importance of placing children and young people at the centre of assessment and planning processes. The unit develops skills to participate in child-centred assessment, planning and implementation to achieve positive outcomes collabouratively.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.
Built for IAO Level 3 Diploma For the Children and Young People's Workforce
66 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Innovate Awarding.
- Assessment and planning with children and young people
- Care for the physical and nutritional needs of babies and young children.
- Caseload management
- Context and principles for early years provision.
- Coordinate special educational needs provision.
- Develop Positive Relationship with Children, Young People and Others Involved in Their Care
and 60 more in the full unit list below.
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