L3 Diploma in Residential Childcare

Awarding Body: City & Guilds

CREDITS: 61

The qualification is for practitioners or those who are looking to enter the workforce within a residential childcare environment and have access to a work placement within this area. The qualification is flexible in structure enabling you to choose the optional units which best suit your work situation and job role. Achievement of this qualification is a requirement of the Department for Education for anyone working in residential childcare.

Units include:

• Understand the development of children and young people in residential childcare
• Understand how to safeguard and protect children and young people in residential childcare
• Understand how to support children and young people who have experienced harm or abuse
• Promote effective communication and information handling in residential childcare settings
• Support risk management in residential childcare
• Assessment and planning with children and young people in residential childcare
• Support group living in residential childcare
• Understand how to support positive outcomes for children and young people in residential childcare
• Support attachment and positive relationships for children and young people in residential childcare
• Support the well-being and resilience of children and young people in residential childcare
• Support children and young people in residential childcare to achieve their learning potential
• Support children and young people in residential childcare to manage their health
• Support the development of socially aware behaviour with children and young people in residential childcare
• Engage in professional development in residential childcare settings
• Support the rights, diversity and equality of children and young people in residential childcare
• Participate in teams to benefit children and young people in residential childcare

How Will The Course Run

Assessment Method/Assessor Support: This will be undertaken via a combination of assignment work and practical work based observation

You will have regular face to face contact with your assessors and this will also include 1 to 1 sessions and group session. Outside lesson time contact can be made with your assessor via the telephone, video call and online chat via our system.

Online: You will be given access to BOCK’s G Drive online system which gives you access to free word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications and also allows you to work from desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones from any location.

Our system will contain all your learning materials and also your online portfolio where you will be able to store your work electronically and receive feedback from your assessors.