Unit XX: Keeping Children Safe
This unit is designed to provide vocational skills in keeping children safe in a childcare setting at Entry level 1, 2 and 3.
This unit provides learners with opportunity to gain an understanding of how to keep children safe in a childcare setting. They will learn how to identify
risks and hazards and put control measures in place to minimise these. Learners will also investigate the career opportunities working with children.
This unit includes:
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Health and Safety in a childcare setting
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Career opportunities working with children
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Consideration of environmental issues including recycling
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Safety labelling on equipment for children
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Common types of childhood accidents and accident prevention
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Consideration of risks, hazards and control measures
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A review and evaluation of performance
Unit Title:
Keeping Children Safe
Assessment Criteria
A01
Health and Safety environment and
related careers
Entry 1
Entry 2
Entry 3
Learners with significant help will:
Learners with some help will:
Learners with little or no help will:
Identify one outdoor and one indoor
hazard in a children’s day care
setting.
Identify two outdoor and two indoor
hazards in a children’s day care
setting.
Identify two outdoor and two indoor
hazards in a children’s day care setting
and give one way to deal with each.
Give one example of how items can
be safely recycled in a childcare
environment.
Give two examples of how items can
be safely recycled in a childcare
environment.
Give three examples of how items can
be safely recycled in a childcare
environment.
Identify one career working with
children.
Identify two careers working with
children.
Identify three careers working with
children.
Choose two careers and describe the
job role.
Materials and related skills knowledge
Identify one safety symbol found on
equipment used in a children’s day
care setting.
Identify two safety symbols found
on equipment used in a children’s
day care setting .
Give one example where each safety
symbol would be found.
Identify one typesof accident or injury
that can happen to children.
Identify two different types of
accident or injury that can happen to
children.
Identify three safety symbols found on
equipment used in a children’s day
care setting.
Give one example where each safety
symbol would be found.
Identify three different types of
accident or injury that can happen to
children. Explain how each type of
accident could be prevented.
A02
Identifying places to take a group of
children for an outing
Identify one suitable indoor venue to
take a group of children for an outing
Identify one suitable outdoor venue
to take one pre-school group and
one suitable indoor venue for a given
primary school age group.
Identify two suitable venues, one
outdoor, one indoor, for a pre-school
group. Explain reasons.
Identify two suitable venues, one
outdoor, one indoor, for a primary
school group. Explain reasons.
Help to plan one suitable outing for
children.
Plan one suitable outing for children.
Plan two suitable outings for childrenone indoor, one outdoor.
Identifying risks getting to the venue
Identify one risk of taking the children
to the venue
Identify two risks of taking the
children to a venue.
Identify two risks of taking both preschool and primary school children to a
venue. Explain reasons.
Identifying risks at the venue
Help to identify two risks at the venue
Identify two risks at each venue
Identify two risks at both the indoor
and outdoor venues for both preschool and primary school.
Assessing risks
Help to assess each risk identified
Low , medium or high
Assess each risk identified
Low , medium or high
Assess each risk identified Low,
medium or high. Outline possible
consequences.
Planning an outing for a group of
children
Help to complete a risk assessment
Complete a risk assessment for one
outing
Complete a risk assessment for two
outings-one pre-school and one
primary school.
Indicate how they have performed in
each task.
Indicate how they have performed in
each practical task and suggest how
they might improve.
Indicate how they have performed in
each practical task and show evidence
of a basic evaluation.
Indicate how they have performed in
this unit.
Indicate how they have performed in
this unit and suggest how they might
improve.
Indicate how they have performed in
this unit and produce a basic selfreflective statement about the learning
process in this unit.
Putting control measures in place for
risks
A03
Task Evaluation
Final Evaluation