NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare (England)

Learner Outcomes:
- 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 the cycle of monitoring, assessment and intervention for children and young people’s development
- Understand the importance of early intervention to support development needs of children and young people.
- Understand the effects of transitions on children and young people’s development.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand the context of safeguarding and protection of children and young people.
- Understand policies and practices for the protection of children and young people and the adults who work with them.
- Understand the nature of abuse that can affect children and young people in residential childcare.
- Understand how to address concerns about abuse.
- Understand policies, procedures and practices to address bullying.
- Understand principles for esafety.
- Understand how to minimise risk of harm to a child or young person who goes missing from care.
- Understand child sexual exploitation.
- Understand the concept of multi-agency working to safeguard children and young people.
- Understand how to empower children and young people to develop strategies to protect their own safety and well-being.
- Understand process and procedures when there are concerns about practice.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand the role and responsibilities of the practitioner and others when supporting children and young people who have experienced harm or abuse.
- Understand how to support children and young people who disclose harm or abuse.
- Understand how to support children or young people who have experienced harm or abuse.
- Understand restrictions on the involvement of key people with children or young people who have experienced harm or abuse.
- Understand how to address the practitioners support needs in relation to harm or abuse.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand effective communication in the work setting.
- Be able to meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individual children and young people.
- Be able to reduce barriers to communication in residential childcare settings.
- Be able to use communication skills to deescalate situations of tension or conflict.
- Understand principles and practices relating to confidentiality in own work.
- Be able to implement organisational processes and procedures for recording, storing and sharing information.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand requirements for health, safety and risk management in residential childcare settings for children and young people.
- Be able to support children and young people to manage risk.
- Be able to manage risks to health, safety and security.
- Understand how to respond to accidents, incidents, emergencies and illness in work settings and off site visits.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand the purpose and principles of assessment and planning with children and young people.
- Understand how to place children and young people at the centre of assessment and planning.
- Be able to participate in assessment and planning for children and young people.
- Be able to work with children and young people as a plan is implemented.
- Be able to work with children and young people to review and update plans.
- Be able to contribute to assessment led by other professionals.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand theories that underpin work with children and young people in group living.
- Be able to support children and young people to live together as a group.
- Be able to plan with children and young people activities for sharing a living space.
- Be able to support children and young people to develop relationships through daily living activities.
- Be able to support continuous improvement in group living arrangements.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand how the social, economic and cultural environment can impact on the outcomes and life chances of children and young people.
- Understand how those working with children and young people can support positive outcomes.
- Understand how disability can impact on positive outcomes and life chances for children and young people.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand the importance of positive attachments for the well-being of children and young people.
- Understand how to support positive attachments for children or young people in residential childcare.
- Understand how to support positive relationships for children and young people in residential childcare.
- Be able to develop positive relationships with children and young people.
- Be able to address concerns about attachments and relationships of children and young people.
- Be able to reflect on own practice in supporting positive attachments and relationships for children or young people.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand the well-being and resilience of children and young people.
- Be able to support the development of children and young people’s social and emotional identity and selfesteem.
- Be able to support children and young people to develop a positive outlook on their lives.
- Be able to recognise and respond to signs of distress in children and young people.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand the context of learning for children and young people in residential childcare.
- Be able to engage children and young people in learning.
- Understand the education system.
- Be able to support children and young people to sustain engagement in learning and education.
- Be able to work with children and young people to maximise learning.
- Understand how to work with others to support children and young people to maximise outcomes from learning.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand health service provision in relation to children and young people in residential childcare.
- Be able to address concerns about the health of children and young people.
- Be able to support children and young people to manage their own health needs, as appropriate to their age and level of understanding.
-Be able to support children and young people to make healthy lifestyle choices.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand principles for supporting the development of socially aware behaviour in children and young people.
- Be able to support children and young people to understand their actions relating to socially aware behaviour.
- Be able to agree expectations about socially aware behaviour.
- Be able to support children and young people to achieve targets and adhere to agreed expectations.
- Be able to respond to instances of socially unacceptable behaviour.
- Understand the use of physical intervention and restraint.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand what is required for competence in own job role in a residential childcare setting.
- Be able to reflect on own practice.
- Be able to evaluate own performance.
- Be able to engage with professional supervision to plan and review own development.
- Be able to use reflective practice to contribute to professional development.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand the rights of children and young people.
- Understand the implications of equalities legislation for children and young people in residential childcare.
- Be able to address discriminatory practice.
- Be able to work in a culturally sensitive way.
- Be able to support the right of children and young people to raise concerns and make complaints.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand how to work as part of a team.
- Understand the local network for children and young people’s services.
- Understand the role of networks and multi-agency work in supporting positive outcomes for children and young people in residential childcare.
- Be able to build working relationships with others involved in the care of children and young people.
- Be able to participate in a multi-agency team around a child or young person.
- Be able to communicate with others to facilitate multiagency working.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand the statutory and legal frameworks in relation to young people who are leaving care.
- Understand emotional responses to change.
- Understand young people’s emotional responses about leaving care.
- Be able to support young people to plan their move from care.
- Be able to prepare young people for practical aspects of daily living as they leave care.
- Be able to support young people with the emotional challenges of leaving care.
- Be able to prepare young people to manage personal risks when they have moved on from care.
- Understand how to provide a continued welcome in the care setting after young people have left.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand the impact on families when a child or young person is in residential childcare.
- Understand principles of working with families.
- Be able to support families to maintain their relationship with their child.
- Be able to work in partnership with families.

Learner Outcomes:
- Understand the legislative framework for the use of medication in social care settings.
- Know about common types of medication and their use.
- Understand roles and responsibilities in the use of medication in social care settings.
- Understand techniques for administering medication.
- Be able to receive, store and dispose of medication supplies safely.
- Know how to promote the rights of the individual when managing medication.
- Be able to support use of medication.
- Be able to record and report on use of medication.