CACHE Level 3 Award/Certificate/Diploma in Child Care and ...

Level 3 Award, Level 3 Certificate and Level 3 Diploma in Child
Care and Education Course Handbook
4. Professional Development Profiles (PDPs)
© CACHE 2011 Version 5
Section 4
There are nine sections in a Professional Development Profile. You must gain a pass in each
section to achieve a satisfactory PDP. If you do not achieve a satisfactory PDP, you will be
Referred.
Each placement supervisor will complete a final PDP towards the end of your placement,
indicating a Pass or Refer and provide comments for each statement. It is important that
you discuss the outcome with your supervisor and ask how you can improve your work,
particularly if you are referred.
You must complete THREE (3) PDPs satisfactorily (a Pass in each of the nine sections) in
order to achieve an overall Pass in the Professional Development Profiles.
You must achieve one satisfactory PDP for each age range:
• birth to 11 months
• 1 to 3 years 11 months
• 4 to 7 years 11 months
Each PDP must be completed over a period of at least 20 days unless it was achieved in a
birth to 1 year environment.
If, at the end of your course of study, you have not achieved a Pass in the required PDPs
you will be required to undertake an additional training placement of 25 days for each
outstanding PDP.
Your Centre can photocopy additional copies of the PDP or take a copy from the CACHE
website, if these are required.
Interim reports are not mandatory. They may be completed at any time to support you in
achieving the placement.
If you sign the PDP, or falsify any area of the PDP, it will not be considered valid for
assessment.
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