NZQA Expiring unit standard
20354 version 3
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Title
Support a child or young person to leave whānau/family and foster
care
Level
4
Credits
6
Purpose
People credited with this standard are able to describe issues
in supporting a child or young person to leave whānau/family
and foster care, and support a child or young person through
the leaving process from whānau/family and foster care.
Classification
Social Services > Whānau/Family and Foster Care
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Open.
Explanatory notes
1
People awarded credit in this unit standard are able to outline the meaning of the
articles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the relevance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi to social
service work, and are able to apply this competence to the context of assessment for
this unit standard (for further clarification, please refer to Unit 19408, Outline the
meaning and relevance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in social service work).
2
Glossary
Carer means a person who is a custodial carer providing care for a child or young
person from their own whānau or family, and/or a person who is providing foster care
for a child or young person placed with them by an agency approved under section
396, Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989. In the context of this
unit standard, carers do not include adoptive parents or birth parents.
Characteristics and needs of children and young people may be physical, spiritual, or
psychological. Characteristics and needs include: age and stage of development,
beliefs, culture, disability, gender, health status, language, sexual orientation, values,
and needs for physical comfort, safety, and privacy.
Whānau/family and foster care includes kinship care, whānau care, foster care, and
foster homes.
3
Legislation related to whānau/family and foster care may include but is not limited to:
Care of Children Act 2004, Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989,
Crimes Act 1961, Domestic Violence Act 1995, Family Proceedings Act 1980, Human
Rights Act 1993, Privacy Act 1993.
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NZQA Expiring unit standard
20354 version 3
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Describe issues in supporting a child or young person to leave whānau/family and foster
care.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Typical major issues of concern for children leaving whānau/family and foster
care are described.
Range
1.2
Typical major issues of concern for young people leaving whānau/family and
foster care are described.
Range
1.3
typical major issues of concern include but are not limited to –
flatting, work, budgeting, independence skills, risk taking,
separation from the carer's whānau/family.
Matters that need to be put in place for young people leaving care are
described.
Range
1.4
typical major issues of concern include but are not limited to –
saying goodbye; keeping possession of their property; clarity
about future contact; personal and whānau/family records such as
photographs or life book.
matters that need to be put in place may include but are not limited
to – Inland Revenue number; bank account; budget; cooking;
other independent living skills; support systems.
Strategies and skills for supporting children or young people leaving
whānau/family and foster care are described.
Range
strategies and skills may include but are not limited to – shared
decision making, negotiation, facilitation, guidance, establishing
consensus, establishing safety and rules, inspiration, motivation,
planning, role modelling, encouraging self-management,
encouraging self care.
Evidence is required of three.
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20354 version 3
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Outcome 2
Support a child or young person through the leaving process from whānau/family and
foster care.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Issues of concern facing the child or young person are identified through
interpersonal skills that are matched to the characteristics and needs of the
child or young person.
Range
2.2
Support focuses on assisting the child or young person to prepare a plan for
leaving whānau/family and foster care.
Range
2.3
assistance through – challenge, encouragement, explanation,
information, suggestions, co-creating and exploring alternatives,
providing information, referral to other services.
The child or young person is supported to leave whānau/family and foster care
through the use of strategies and skills that are matched to the characteristics
and needs of the child or young person.
Range
2.4
interpersonal skills may include but are not limited to – attending,
clarifying, encouraging, questioning, paraphrasing, reflection of
feeling and content, reframing, summarising.
strategies and skills may include but are not limited to – shared
decision making, negotiation, facilitation, guidance, establishing
consensus, establishing safety and rules, inspiration, motivation,
role modelling, encouraging self-management, encouraging self
care.
Evidence is required of two.
The child or young person is supported to leave whānau/family and foster care
in accordance with their plan.
Replacement information
This unit standard was replaced by unit standard 28553.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Community Support Services ITO Limited
SSB Code 101814
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA Expiring unit standard
20354 version 3
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Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
24 November 2003
Rollover and
Revision
2
21 September 2007
Review
3
16 April 2015
31 December 2018
31 December 2018
31 December 2018
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0222
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Community Support Services ITO Limited
SSB Code 101814
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016