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Skill Overview

This programme will equip learners with a robust set of skills, knowledge and behaviours that will allow them to progress their career as a Children, Young People and Families Practitioner.

Learners can expect to receive shadowing opportunities and will take
part in specific job-related tasks in the workplace such as learning the routines of young people and how to support them with their daily living needs.

Learners will attend medical appointments, consultation visits, family
contact visits, visits with a social worker, youth offending panels and more. Learners will also provide daily support for children around schooling, dealing with incidents such as missing from home, restraints, assaults and interventions, drug and alcohol issues, grooming plus others.

The programme qualification will cover 19 units, research and reflection, as well as linking to the standards knowledge, skills and behaviours.

Learning Objectives

• Child development
• Safeguarding
• Supporting those who have been harmed and abused
• Communication and information handling
• Supporting risk management
• Assessment and planning for young people in care
• Supporting positive experience of group living
• Supporting positive outcomes for children in care
• Supporting positive attachment and relationships
• Developing young people’s wellbeing and resilience
• Supporting young people to reach their learning potential
• Supporting their health needs
• Developing social awareness behaviours
• Professional development
• Right’s equality and diversity for children and young people in care
• Working in a team to benefit a child
• Understanding the care system and its impact on children and young people / The care system for those with complex needs and disabilities
• Supporting the use of medication in residential childcare settings.

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Funding Eligibility

For apprentices aged 16-21 the training costs are fully funded by the government. For apprentices aged over 21, there is a 5% co-investment which would be paid by the employer. Alternatively, the training costs can be covered by utilising the Apprenticeship Levy Fund.

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Learners should hold a minimum of Level 1 Functional Skills in English and maths or the correct equivalent and should also have been subjected to an enhanced DBS check. Initial assessments and diagnostics completed in English and maths to assess levels of literacy and numeracy and determine any additional learning
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