Nursery Management and Nutrition for Young Children QLS Level 3

Nursery Management

Level 3:

Unit 1: The Management of Nursery Staff

• Effective communication
• The appraisal process and logging staff records
• Disciplinary procedures and grievance issues
• Employment policies for the recruitment and management of staff

Unit 2: Safeguarding Children

• Definition of child abuse
• Forms of child abuse
• Policies, legislation and guidelines for safeguarding children
• Roles and responsibilities of staff
• Reporting an incident
• The child protection conference

Unit 3: Health and Safety for Children and Staff

• Safe working practices in the nursery setting for children and staff
• Health and safety at different stages of child development
• Procedures for good hygiene
• Illness
• First aid

Unit 4: The Early Years Foundation Stage: Curriculum and Assessment

• Types of learning
• Detrimental issues and learning
• The importance of differentiation
• Planning learning with the support of assessments

Unit 5: Creating a Positive Nursery Environment

• Observations
• Summative assessments
• Referral to third parties
• Risk assessment
• Communication for play and learning

Unit 6: Supporting and Planning Self-Directed Play

• The play cycle
• The importance of play for young children
• Play equipment and space in the nursery setting
• Outdoor play space
• Indoor play space
• Health and safety for the play space

Nutrition for Young

ChildrenLevel 3:

Unit 1: Principles of a balanced diet

• Nutrients that comprise our food
• How our bodies use these nutrients
• The effect of nutrients
• The effects of nutritional imbalance
• Current guidelines for healthy eating

Unit 2: Prenatal and infant feeding

• Nutrition is preconception and pregnancy
• Milk feeding
• Weaning
• Common feeding problems in infants
• Nutrition for preterm infants

Unit 3: Nutrition for pre-school children

• Main dietary principles for good nutrition in the 1-4 year age group
• Common challenges of providing a balanced diet for children aged between 1-4 years
• Challenges of providing a balanced diet within childcare settings
• Core components of nutritionally beneficial meal plans for children of this age group

Unit 4: Nutrition for school aged children (5-18 years)

• Challenges of providing good nutrition for school aged children
• Range of factors which influence nutritional choice within this age group
• Potential risk factors within this age group associated with nutritional imbalance
• Strategies and schemes that can be used to address some of the nutritional challenges within this age group

Unit 5: Nutrition for food hypersensitivity in children

• Food allergies and intolerance
• Medical conditions that require dietary modification
• Advising parents

Unit 6: Childhood obesity

• Main nutritional problems which contribute to the rising incidence of childhood obesity
• Negative impacts of childhood obesity in terms of health and wellbeing
• Risk factors for diabetes associated with childhood obesity
• How childhood obesity can impact future health and wellbeing into adulthood