Childcare Skills

Course summary

There are 17 mandatory units including: • Developing effective Study Skills • Promote partnership working with parents • Model, promote and support positive behaviour with children • Principles of safeguarding policies and procedures in early years settings • Promoting diversity, equality and inclusion in the early years sector • Working in partnership with colleagues and other professionals in early years settings • Plan and implement activities, play opportunities and educational programmes in an early years setting • Promoting children's health and welfare in an early years setting • Promoting the health and safety of children • Promote children's speech, language and communication development • Support organisational requirements for recording, storing and disclosing information and providing reports in an early years setting • Supporting children's creative and imaginative play and experiences • Supporting children experiencing transitions and significant events in the early years sector • Continuous professional development using reflective practice in the early years sector • Theories which underpin practice in the early years sector • Child development from conception to 7 years • Observation and assessment in the early years sector