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
Introduction
© CACHE 2011 Version 5
Introduction
Welcome to the CACHE Level 3 Award, Level 3 Certificate and Level 3 Diploma in Child
Care and Education.
These qualifications prepare you to work with children and their families in a variety of
settings and environments within the sector of Children's Services.
The Diploma prepares you to work unsupervised, or in a supervisory capacity.
Your Centre will register you as a candidate with CACHE. You will receive a personal
identification number (PIN) for entry to any assessment for these qualifications.
You will undertake practical placements throughout the qualifications to link theory with workbased
practice.
This will be assessed through the Placement Summary, Practice Evidence Records,
Practice Evidence Record Diary and Professional Development Profiles. For more
information see Practical training overleaf.
Recommended Guided Learning Hours (GLH)
Guided Learning Hours include:
• time spent with your tutor(s), who use a number of different ways to help you learn, so
that not all the recommended hours will be spent in the classroom, and
• time the tutor or placement supervisor spends with you in your placement supporting,
or assessing you.
About the qualifications
It is expected that most people will progress through the Award and Certificate to complete
the Diploma in order to be able to practice as an early years practitioner.
Award You must achieve Units 1 and 2; 120 Guided Learning Hours (GLH) to
complete.
Certificate You must achieve Units 1 - 5; plus a short answer test; 360 GLH to complete.
Diploma You must achieve Units 1 - 9, plus three optional units chosen by your Centre
from Units 10 - 21; plus short answer paper and research task; 1,009 GLH
plus 750 recommended practical training hours in Unit 9.
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