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Care Scotland Qualification Information

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To access information related to the following qualifications, please follow the appropriate link:

View information relating to Childcare Qualifications.
Childcare

View information relating to Health and Socal Care Qualifications.
Health and Social Care

View information relating to Health-Sepcific Qualifications.
Health Specific

View information relating to Community Justice Qualifications.
Community Justice


Scottish Social Services Council

The SSSC are holding a number of Consultation events to hear your views on the existing Health and Social Care and Children’s Care Learning and Development Modern Apprenticeships and on the possibility of level 2 Modern Apprenticeships. Please follow the link below to view details:


Predecessor PDA: Certificate Childcare & Education

To view the letter sent out to all approved childcare centres please follow the link below:


STOP PRESS

HND Social Services & HND Childhood Practice

We are pleased to advise you that the HND Social Services and HND Childhood Practice have both been validated.

The arrangements documents are currently being compiled and more information will follow in January 2009.


PDA Supervision in Care Services

SQA is currently developing an award designed for supervisors and to the meet the SSSC supervisory criteria for this job role at SCQF level 7.  Within any qualification development, it is important for SQA to gain feedback from stakeholders in the subject area.  Therefore, I would fully appreciate your co-operation in completing an online survey.

The PDA SCS rationale document provides an overview of the award development, and a summary of the draft Units.  I would request that you read this prior to completing the survey.


The submission date for the completion of the survey is Friday 21st November 2008.

Please follow the link below to access the survey.


HNC Early Education & Childcare Unit Revisions (G7CX 15)

As Centres will be aware the revised units (F3S3 34, F3S9 24, F3S4 34) have now been added to the above framework.  The  reviewed Units (DF51 34, DF52 34, DF50 34) will remain within the framework to allow for future certification and recognition of the award within internal systems. All candidates currently undertaking these predecessor Units must complete them by 31 July 2010


Scottish Credit & Qualifications Framework (SCQF) Social Services Recognition of Prior Informal Learning (RPL) pilot


Assessment Exemplars and Student & Tutor Guides

Assessment Exemplars and Student & Tutor Guides are available to download from the secure area of SQA's website. Access to this site is availabe to the SQA Co-ordinator of your centre.


SVQ Leadership and Management for Care Services level 4 (G8W8 24)

As from today, Tuesday 1 April 2008 the SVQ Leadership and Management for Care Services (LMC) level 4 will be available for centres to deliver. This qualification reflects current practice and legislation; therefore the SVQ LMC will supersede the Registered Manager Award (RMA) in Health and Social Care (G6N6) and the Manager in Residential Childcare Award (G7LM) from 1 April 2008.

As you may be aware the RMA lapsed 31 March 2008 but will remain on our system until 31 March 2012, and the Manager in Residential Childcare Award will remain on our system until 30 June 2011, to allow for certification of candidates already entered for these awards.

Unit specifications, Assessment Strategy and Guidance, and the qualification framework are now avaliable to download.

Please contact your SQA Co-ordinator for information sent to them about launch events for this new qualification.

If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact any of the Care Scotland team on 0845 213 5471.


Urgent Interim Guidance

HNC Health Care (G8CE 15)

Please follow the link below for more information.


SVQs Allied Health Profession Support (G8A5 23)/Renal Support (G8A7 23) /Decontamination (G8A6 23)/Maternity/Paediatric (G8A1 23) level 3

It has been brought to our attention that the option to use Expert Witness Testimony where no assessor is available has been omitted from the pathway specific Units in the above frameworks.


PDAs in Practice Learning

Stage 3 (SCQF level 10) of the Practice Learning qualification development was completed with the successful validation of two awards: PDA Practice Learning and PDA Practice Learning (Social Services). For frameworks and Unit downloads please go to the 'Health and Social Care' section and scroll down the page until you find the Professional Development Awards heading.


HND for the Social Services Sector

A meeting was held in SQA's Glasgow offices on Thursday 31 May 2007, prior to the creation of a Qualifications Design Team to take forward the development of this qualification.

You can find more information on the development at the website: Link opens in new windowhttp://hndsocialservices.blogspot.com

The group formulated a diagram of how the HND may sit in relation to current qualifications and job roles in the Social Services sector.


Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations' Council (EVOC) 


Training Needs Analyser

This is an online tool for voluntary private and public sector care providers. It has been designed for:

  • small organisations with little or no HR support to make a complex area simpler to manage
  • all managers with staff learning and development remit.

The tool combines SSSC post requirements, your organisation's requirements and employee information. End analyses identifies qualifications required/in progress/completed plus a range of analyses options. For more information: www.evoc.org.uk.


HND for Social Services Sector update

As well as conducting a number of consultation events across the country, we have met with  a large number of representatives from service delivery organisations in the public and independent sectors, regulatory and advisory bodies, and institutes of higher education.

The new qualification has been designed with multiple entry routes and candidates will select whether to follow the HND Childhood Practice or HND Social Service main route through the award, depending on their main workplace experience and career aspirations. Within each main route there will be further opportunities to follow selected paths in the optional part of the award in order to cover specialised aspects relating to particular work demands or academic aspirations.

The unit writing team meets again on 28 June to coordinate and agree final drafts for submission to SQA. They will then be peer reviewed and amended as appropriate. It is anticipated that the units and awards will be presented to SQA for validation in October 2008.

If you have any questions or comments you would like to share with the development team, please contact the Care Scotland team.

A blog has been created which we hope will provide an open forum on the HND development and also a means to provide information on it's progress. This can only be successful with the participation of our stakeholders so please have a look at www.hndsocialservices.blogspot.com.

Powerpoint presentations from the briefing on 23 March 2007 at the Marriott Hotel Glasgow can be found below:


Scottish Government reports


Health & Social Care Verification update - 20 February 2008

Information enclosed in the delegate packs at the Health & Social Care Verification update can be downloaded from the links below.


Open Learning packs

Open Learning packs have been produced for a number of Units in the HNC Social Care and HNC Early Education and Childcare. These packs can be purchased from SQA at a cost of £17.00 per pack plus a handling charge of £2.95 and can be ordered via the Customer Contact Centre. Please find below the relevant order form.

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