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This wide-ranging course aims to make everyone feel more confident about supporting young children with special needs or disabilities. For practitioners, the emphasis is on making services more inclusive. There's also an accredited (City and Guilds) version of the course for those who want to gain a recognised qualification.
Who it's for
- everyone working in the Early Years sector and health and social care professionals
- families with a disabled child.
How you'll benefit
This course will help practitioners develop their settings to become more inclusive for children with additional needs and disabilities. This course will help parents/carers to become more confident in supporting their child and in working with the many practitioners they will meet. It will also support practitioners and families to work with the Early Years Foundation Stage materials in an Early Support context.
More about the course
The courses are held at various locations in England depending on demand. The aim is to train people in groups of no more that 20 participants (and not less than ten).
This training course is delivered over five days, with additional support for assessment, if required.
Day 1: Introduction to Early Support and principled ways of working
Day 2: Making sense of legislation and policy
Day 3: Working in partnership
Day 4: Supporting development
Day 5: Helping every child succeed
Read the Supporting children with Additional Needs and Disabilities course outline.
How to enrol
Contact a training provider direct or get in touch with your LA's Early Years service to find out whether a course is being offered locally.
Assessment and accreditation
You can choose to follow an accredited route for this course, leading to the City and Guilds' Work with Parents level 3 award (3598).
To gain this award, you need to complete an assessed portfolio of evidence to show that you have met relevant learning outcomes. City and Guilds suggest that this qualification 'will provide essential knowledge and skills for those learners who work with parents in a paid or voluntary capacity, in a wide range of settings'.
This award is made up of three units:
Unit 006 Principles and values underpinning work with parents. At the end of this unit learners will be able to:
- understand the principles and values of work with parents
- apply the principles and values in work with parents.
Unit 009 Team working, multi-agency working and working in partnership with parents. At the end of this unit learners will know and understand:
- how to work in partnership with parents
- how to work with others in teams and across multi-agency networks
- the procedures for recording information
- the procedures for sharing information appropriately.
Unit 011 Reflect on and update own knowledge and practice. At the end of this unit learners will be able to:
- reflect on and evaluate the effectiveness of own practice
- develop and update practice
- incorporate developments into practice.
Support will be given to help you complete the portfolio of evidence. The evidence can be drawn from the training days, from application of learning to practice and from reflection on the learning that has taken place.
The assessment guide (currently in draft form for consultation purposes) gives you a good overview of what to expect if you choose the accredited route.
Read further information about the City and Guilds Work with Parents award (3598).
Associated documents
Supporting children with Additional Needs and Disabilities
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Last updated on 20/08/2009
