Step 1: Course Enrolment - you will need to complete a short enrolment and telephone induction to start  

Step 2: Starting the course - your assessor will introduce themselves and issue you with your first assessment plan 

Step 3: Submitting Work - when you have completed an assignment, you can upload it to your course portal for your assessor to mark your work and give you feedback. Feedback  will be displayed on your portal and emailed to you for ease of reference

Step 4: Getting Help - when you need help, you can contact your assessor with questions any time as well as being able to get in touch with our customer support team between 9 am and 6 pm Mon - Fri.  

Step 5: Completion - once you and your assessor are confident that you have met the criteria in each unit,  your portfolio goes into the IQA stage which takes approximately 9-12 weeks. After this stage, we will be able to claim your certificate.

Approximately 15 minutes after purchase, you will receive your login details (Please check Spam folder) by email, including a link and instructions to log into your course. You can also find your learning portal by clicking on the ‘student login’ button on our website or by clicking here; lms.thelearningstation.co.uk. 

Mandatory Units

Unit 1: Engage in personal development in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings - A/601/1429

• Understand what is required for competence in own work role
• Be able to reflect on practice
• Be able to evaluate own performance
• Be able to agree a personal development plan
• Be able to use learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development

Unit 2: Promote communication in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings - J/601/1434

• Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting
• Be able to meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals
• Be able to overcome barriers to communication
• Be able to apply principles and practices relating to confidentiality

Unit 3: Principles for implementing duty of care in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings - R/601/1436

• Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice
• Know how to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and the duty of care
• Know how to respond to complaints

Unit 4: Promote equality and inclusion in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings - Y/601/1437

• Understand the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion
• Be able to work in an inclusive way
• Be able to promote diversity, equality and inclusion

Unit 5: Support Children and Young People's Healthand Safety - D/601/1696

• Understand how to plan and provide environments and services that support children and young people’s health and safety
• Be able to recognise and manage risks to health, safety and security in a work setting or off site visits
• Understand how to support children and young people to assess and manage risk for themselves
• Understand appropriate responses to accidents, incidents emergencies and illness in work settings and off site visits

Unit 6: Develop Positive Relationship with Children, Young People and Others Involved in Their Care - H/601/1697

• Be able to develop positive relationships with children and young people
• Be able to build positive relationships with people involved in the care of children and young people

Unit 7: Working Together for the Benefit of Children and Young People - K/601/1698

• Understand integrated and multi agency working
• Be able to communicate with others for professional purposes
• Be able to support organisational processes and procedures for recording, storing and sharing information

Unit 8: Understand Child and Young Person Development - L/601/1693

• Understand the expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth - 19 years
• Understand the factors that influence children and young people’s development and how these affect practice
• Understand how to monitor children and young people’s development and interventions that should take place if this is not following the expected pattern
• Understand the importance of early intervention to support the speech, language and communication needs of children and young people
• Understand the potential effects of transitions on children and young people’s development

Unit 9: Understand How to Support Positive Outcomes for Children and Young People - M/601/1699

• Understand how the social, economic and cultural environment can impact on the outcomes and life chances of children and young people
• Understand how practitioners can make a positive difference in outcomes for children and young people
• Understand the possible impact of disability, special requirements (additional needs) and attitudes on positive outcomes for children and young people
• Understand the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion in promoting positive outcomes for children and young people

Unit 10: Promote Child and Young Person Development - R/601/1694

• Be able to assess the development needs of children or young people and prepare a development plan
• Be able to promote the development of children or young people
• Be able to support the provision of environments and services that promote the development of children or young people
• Understand how working practices can impact on the development of children and young people
• Be able to support children and young people’s positive behaviour
• Be able to support children and young people experiencing transitions

Unit 11: Understand How to Safeguard the Wellbeing of Children and Young People - Y/601/1695

• Understand the main legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people
• Understand the importance of working in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children and young people
• Understand the importance of ensuring children and young people’s safety and protection in the work setting
• Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed
• Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been bullied
• Understand how to work with children and young people to support their safety and wellbeing
• Understand the importance of safety for children and young people

To achieve the Level 3 Diploma for Children and Young People’s Workforce, learners must achieve a minimum of 65 credits to achieve this qualification. These are made up of 27 credits from Mandatory Units Group A as shown above, [all units in one selected pathway – Early Learning and Children (22 credits) or Social Care (13 credits) or Learning, Development and Support (13 credits)]. Any remaining credit must be taken from the Optional Unit Groups; a minimum of 12 credits from Optional Group B and the remaining 14 credits can be taken from Optional Groups B and C.

You can find the Optional Units in the course qualification handbook. 

If you'd like a copy of the course qualification handbook, please give us a call now on 0208 342 7210.

Your assessor will provide you with assessment plans with work to complete, as well as their contact information. They will not reach out to you if you are not doing your work, you need to get in touch if you are having trouble with your assignments.

Your assessor should respond to any messages from you within just 3-working days, but it is usually sooner. If you have sent your assessor a message and you haven’t heard back from them, please let us know by emailing [email protected].

This qualification requires an assessment of both competence and knowledge. Throughout your level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young Peoples Workforce (Early Years Educator) course, you will be assessed through a variety of methods:

• Written assignments and coursework
• Having a manager or colleague complete a witness testimony of tasks completed in a workplace
• Direct observations of you carrying out work-related tasks
• Professional discussions over the phone
• Supplying us with work product evidence.

Upon completion of your course, there are steps that we must take to quality assure your qualification to then send to the awarding organisation.

• The Assessor must review your work in full before submitting it to our IQA, this usually takes around 2 weeks.

• The IQA will review any requests within 1-months, but this is usually sooner. If there are actions on your portfolio it will be sent to the assessor for them to complete, and then these steps will be repeated.

• Once the IQA has quality-checked and approved your portfolio for external sampling by the awarding body, the office will submit the claim for your certificate within 5 working days.

• The awarding body will usually issue a certificate within 2-weeks from this point; however, they may request sampling of your work, in which case it can be up to one month.

• The usual duration is 1-2 months from completion.