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Brand new resources for Level 2 provide complete coverage of the new Children’s Workforce qualifications so you can be sure that you are fully supported to make a difference to the lives of the children in your care.
Brand new resources for Level 3 provide complete coverage of the new Children's Workforce qualifications so you can be sure that you and your learners are fully supported to make a difference to the lives of the children in your care.
This textbook takes an assessment-focused approach to the 2010 specification, clearly presenting information to students on what they need to know and what they need to be able to do to acheive the qualification.
This text covers all mandatory units and a good selection of optional units to provide the information learners need to succeed. Engaging case studies, activities and photos give a real flavour of working in childcare and help learners relate theory to good practice.
This text covers all mandatory units and a good selection of optional units to provide the information learners need to succeed. Engaging case studies, activities and photos give a real flavour of working in childcare and help learners relate theory to good practice.
This text covers all mandatory units and a good selection of optional units to provide the information learners need to succeed. Engaging case studies, activities and photos give a real flavour of working in childcare and help learners relate theory to good practice.
From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation brings together key thinkers and practitioners from diverse contexts across the globe to provide an authoritative overview of contemporary theory and practice around children’s participation. Promoting the participation of children and young people - in decision-making and policy development, and as active contributors to everyday family and community life - has become a central part of policy and programme initiatives in both majority and minority worlds. This book presents the most useful recent work in children’s participation as a resource for academics, students and practitioners in childhood studies, children’s rights and welfare, child and family social work, youth and community work, governance, aid and development programmes. The book introduces key concepts and debates, and presents a rich collection of accounts of the diverse ways in which children’s participation is understood and enacted around the world, interspersed with reflective commentaries from adults and young people. It concludes with a number of substantial theoretical contributions that aim to take forward our understanding of children’s participation. The emphasis throughout the text is on learning from the complexity of children’s participation in practice to improve our theoretical understanding, and on using those theoretical insights to challenge practice, with the aim of realising children’s rights and citizenship more fully.
LEVEL 3 DIPLOMA FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORKFORCE seeks to provide a comprehensive and economical learner support guide for anyone undertaking this qualification. The resource includes up-to-date information relevant to child safeguarding, and also a large number of optional units required for childcare practitioners working in not just early years settings, but also residential. The sections included in the book are as follows: SECTION 1: SHARED CORE UNITS. Chapter 1: Communication; Chapter 2: Promote Equality and Inclusion; Chapter 3: Engage in Personal Development; Chapter 4: Implementing Duty of Care. SECTION 2: CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S MANDATORY UNITS: Chapter 5: Understand Child and Young People's Development; Chapter 6: Promote Child and Young Person Development; Chapter 7: Promote the Safeguarding and Well-being of Children; Chapter 8: Supporting Health and Safety of Children and Young People; Chapter 9: Developing Positive Relationships; Chapter 10: Working Collaboratively. SECTION 3: Early Year's Pathway Units: Chapter 12: Context and Principles for Early Years Provision; Chapter 13: Promote Development and Learning in Babies and Young Children; Chapter 14: Promote Children's Welfare & Well-Being in the Early Years Sector; Chapter 15: Promote Professional Practice in Early Years Settings; Chapter 16: Support Children's Speech, Language and Communication; Chapter 17: Work with Babies and Young Children to Promote their Development and Learning; Chapter 18: Care for the Physical and Nutritional Needs of Babies and Young Children; Chapter 19: Promote Physical Activity and Movement Skills of Young Children; Chapter 20: Understand How to Set up a Home-Based Childcare Service. SECTION 4: OTHER OPTIONAL UNITS: Chapter 21: Promote Creativity and Creative Learning in Young Children; Chapter 22: Professional Practice in Children and Young People; Chapter 23: Assessment and Planning; Chapter 24: Supporting Disabled Children and Young People and those with Specific Requirements; Chapter 25: Working with Children and Young People in a Residential Care Setting.
