TQUK Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare (RQF)
Course Overview
Qualification Purpose
The Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare is specifically designed for learners wanting to work in residential care with children in a care role. Settings include residential care homes, residential special schools, therapeutic communities, secure children’s homes, shared care and short break settings.
Learners will develop the knowledge skills necessary to promote a caring, healthy, stimulating, safe, secure environment for children and young people in their care. This qualification can be used as a mandatory qualification for the Children, Young People and Families Practitioner apprenticeship.
Throughout this qualification, learners will cover underpinning knowledge and skills required for progression to this apprenticeship or further into the residential childcare sector.
Entry Requirements
There are no specific entry requirements however learners should have a minimum of level two in literacy and numeracy or equivalent.
The qualification is suitable for learners of 16 years of age and above.
Progression
Successful learners can progress to other qualifications such as:
- Level 4 Diploma in Leadership and Management
- Level 5 Award in Leadership and Management
- Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare
- Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s
Services
Learners may progress to the Children, Young People and Families Practitioner apprenticeship (https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/children-young-people- and- families-practitioner/).
Progression can also be made into industry, with learners having the potential to become residential
childcare workers, or higher roles in other adult or children and young people’s work environments.
Centre Devised Assessment (CDA) Guidance
Centre-devised assessments play a vital role in the evaluation of a learner’s progress as they are based on the qualification’s learning objectives. They provide learners with the opportunity to evidence the knowledge, understanding, and skills gained while studying the qualification and support teaching staff in monitoring the learner’s progress.
As this qualification is internally assessed, TQUK allows centres to produce their own assessments. When designing them, assessors must give consideration to the depth and breadth of knowledge allowed by each task.
TQUK has produced centre guidance on our suggested approaches to designing appropriate assessment tasks, and these may be accessed from our website www.tquk.org.
This includes templates to support the design of internal assessments and a checklist to ensure that the assessments are valid and fit for purpose.
To ensure the validity and fairness of our qualifications, centre-devised assessments form part of our quality assurance processes. More information about this and how to prepare for external quality assurance reviews can be found on our website.
Course Delivery
Pre-Course Information
All learners should be given appropriate pre-course information regarding any TQUK qualifications. The information should explain the qualification, the fee, the form of the assessment and any entry requirements or resources needed to undertake the qualification.
Initial Assessment
Centres should ensure that any learner registered on a TQUK qualification undertakes some form of initial assessment. The initial assessment should be used to inform a teacher/trainer of the level of the learner’s current knowledge and/or skills and any additional specific support requirements the learner may need.
The initial assessment can be undertaken by a teacher/trainer in any form suitable for the qualification to be undertaken by the learner/s. It is the centre’s responsibility to make available forms of initial assessment that are valid, applicable, and relevant to TQUK qualifications.
Teaching resources
All teaching materials and additional resources used to support the delivery of this qualification must be age-appropriate. Centres must ensure when developing or sourcing delivery materials that careful consideration is given to the safeguarding and wellbeing of their learners in line with the centre’s policies and procedures.
Course Highlights
Payment Plan
Option 1: Full Payment
£1500
Option 2: Instalment Plan
£500 deposit
2 Monthly Instalment of £500
4 Monthly Instalment of £250
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