LEVEL 3 HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE UNIT 10 CARING FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

This student work booklet includes student activities to cover a whole unit of work for Unit 10 Caring for children and young people. This booklet can also support content for the NEW SPECIFICATION- UNIT 7 PRINCIPLES OF SAFE PRACTICE IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE.

The activities in this booklet can be used to form taught lessons or set as homework tasks. Students can also work on this booklet independently.

The booklet includes work to support a whole scheme of work with:
-scenarios and case study questions
- definitions
-research tasks
-matching activies
-general worksheets to support lessons.

Content includes:
1. Why children and young people might need to be looked after/in care
- family related reasons
- child related reasons

2. How care is provided for looked after children and young people
-temporary care
-residential care
-parents
-planning
-adoption
-legal legislation and frameworks

3. The risks to children and young people of abusive and exploitative behaviour
- types of abuse
- number of risks to children
-consequences of abuse
- theories of maltreatment-strengths and weaknesses

4. Understand the strategies used to safeguard children and young people from abusive and exploitative behaviour.
-range of strategies for children and young people