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This short course supports residential childcare professionals in developing confidence and competence in essential numeracy skills required for their roles. Through real-world tasks such as planning meals, managing group budgets, and creating schedules, learners will develop practical maths skills they can immediately apply in their setting. 

This course builds on core employability and problem-solving skills and can act as a stepping stone to further qualifications in Functional Skills Maths or residential childcare. 

Over a 4-week period (12 hours total), learners will focus on applying maths in real-life childcare settings to support planning, budgeting, and educational activities.

Key topics include:
• Creating and managing activity timetables.
• Budgeting for meals, outings, and resources.
• Tracking and recording expenses accurately.
• Supporting numeracy development in young people.
• Applying maths to everyday decision-making in care settings.

Benefits for the Employers:
•Enhances operational efficiency: Staff becomes more confident in managing budgets, time, and resources effectively. 
•Improves quality of care: Employers can make informed decisions around activities, food planning, and shift scheduling, directly improving the service experience for young people.
•Supports staff development and retention: Demonstrates your commitment to continuous professional development and upskilling. 
•Minimises disruption through flexible delivery: We deliver training on the employer’s site, in-house at our fully equipped office, or online with sessions scheduled to fit around shift patterns and operational needs.

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By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

•	Strengthen numeracy skills required for residential childcare tasks. 
•	Improve employee confidence in understanding and responding to numerical workplace tasks such as, budgeting, timetabling and scheduling.
•	Create and manage a realistic group budget for childcare-related activities, using basic operations to compare prices, calculate totals, and make spending decisions. 
•	Design structured daily or weekly timetables for young people in residential care, using time calculations and sequencing to balance routines, learning and leisure. 
•	Gain confidence in applying numeracy in everyday care tasks such as meal planning, shopping, and travel, estimating quantities, cost, and time requirements. 
•	Learn how to effectively support young people in developing functional numeracy skills, using everyday tasks to promote confidence in problem-solving and decision-making. 
•	Successfully combine budgeting, time management, and numeracy to plan and evaluate real-world childcare scenarios, using maths to make informed decisions and solve workplace problems.

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This course is part of our Skills Development Service.

To be eligible for this training, you must be:

•	19 years old or over 
•	Employed, volunteering or an unpaid worker.
•	Have the right to live and work in the UK. 
•	You must not already have achieved a level 2 qualification, in this subject, in the last 3 years.

This support is available for those living in Greater Manchester or one of the neighbouring areas. These include parts of Lancashire, Derbyshire, Merseyside, West Yorkshire, and Cheshire – your eligibility will be checked by one of our Skills Coaches.

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