CHCECE016 - Establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children

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Unit code: CHCECE016 | Study level: TAFE
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Overview

The unit describes the skills and knowledge to establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children.  This unit applies to educators working in a range of education and care services.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • established and maintained an environment that is safe and healthy for children in at least once service, including: communicating hazards and safety issues to appropriate persons within the service; coordinating emergency responses including evacuation plans; planning and coordinating supervision of children; promoting and monitoring safety practices, including administration of medicines and safe handling of food; coordinating appropriate procedures for handling infections and illnesses, including communicating with families, and; enacting strategies to support children to take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.

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