Childcare Skills

Course summary

This is a comprehensive course if you wish to follow a career in work with children and/or progress onto teacher training. It provides a specialist work-related programme of study, equivalent to three A-levels and on successful completion of the course, you will achieve Early Years Educator status and have completed 750 hours of work experience. This thoroughly equips you for a range of careers/higher education degrees including primary teaching, work as a nanny, early years educators within nursery settings, teaching assistants, work with children with special educational needs, children's nursing and a variety of other careers working within the early years sector. This Level 3 qualification provides you with assistant practitioner status' once a pass grade has been achieved. This allows you to undertake supervised work within an early year's environment (0-8 years). It will give you the underpinning knowledge, understanding and skills necessary to prepare you for employment. Further Study: Progression to the FdA Early Years at WCG or university.