CHCECE003

Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to ensure the children’s physical and emotional wellbeing is maintained and their self-sufficiency is nurtured.

This unit applies to work with children in a range of early education and care services.

Unit mapping information

This unit supersedes CHCCN302A Provide care for children.

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.

Oral communication—in order to interact calmly and positively with families and children.

The remaining 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 assessed 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.

Assessment must ensure use of:

• National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care
• the relevant approved learning framework under the National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care.

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