CHCPRT002

Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to address duty of care requirements, working within an ethical framework and applying relevant legislation, codes of conduct, international agreements (such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child), policies and procedures in identifying, responding and supporting children’s and young people’s rights and safety.

This unit applies to workers involved in delivering services to children and young people in a wide range of community services and work contexts

Unit mapping information

This unit supersedes CHCCHILD404B Support the rights and safety of children and young people.

Licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication

Foundation skills

The foundation skills described those required skills (language, literacy and numeracy) that are essential to performance.

Learning – in order to review and plan updates of own skills.

Other foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit.

Unit sector or competency field

None specified

Prerequisite, co-requisite or interdependent assessment of units

None specified

Assessment conditions

Skills must be demonstrated in the workplace.

In addition, simulations and scenarios must be used where the full range of contexts and situations cannot be provided in the workplace or may occur only rarely. These are situations relating to emergency or unplanned procedures where assessment in these circumstances would be unsafe or is impractical.

Simulated assessment environments must simulate the real-life working environment where these skills and knowledge would be performed, with all the relevant equipment and resources of that working environment.

Assessors must satisfy the NVR/AQTF mandatory competency requirements for assessors