Rosemarie T Humphreys

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Society, Health and Development Diploma
Rosemarie T Humphreys Skills for Care
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Diploma Development Partnership

• Led by Skills for Health with members from
• Skills Active Young people and wider children's
  workforce
• Skills for Care
• Skills for Justice
• Employers
• Learning providers

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The Availability of Workforce
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Why the SHD Diploma is important

• Unique opportunity to introduce students to a
  career in working with adults in social care,
  children and young people and other options
• Preparation for work (but not work ready)
• Route to further training and qualifications in
  working with adults and children
• Route into HE

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The Vision

• The intrinsic value of human beings throughout
  life is at the heart of the Society, Health and
  Development Diploma. It provides a unique
  opportunity to bring together the adult social
  care, children and young peoples, community
  justice and health workforces within one
  qualification. It puts young people at the
  centre of the learning experience through
  informed choice.

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The Young Person at the Centre of the Diploma
Independent enquirers
Team workers
Self-managers
Project Work placement Classroom
setting Voluntary work
Creative thinkers
Reflective learners
Effective participators
The young person at the centre of the learning is
one of the unique selling points of the diploma
look for potential opportunities to achieve
PLTS
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Engage employers in early dialogue - PLTS
Diploma Development Process
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Diploma Structure
Other Level Principal Learning (mandatory) Additional Specialist Learning
National Curriculum Entitlement 14-16 1 8 integrated/cross sector topics At levels 1 2 learner choice At Level 3 Young person - choice from 15 Specialist units and /or Additional qualifications
National Curriculum Entitlement 14-16 2 5 integrated/cross sector topics, 4 sector- specific units At levels 1 2 learner choice At Level 3 Young person - choice from 15 Specialist units and /or Additional qualifications
3 6 integrated/cross sector topics including sector based context placement At levels 1 2 learner choice At Level 3 Young person - choice from 15 Specialist units and /or Additional qualifications
Personal Learning and Thinking Skills (PLTS)Functional Maths, English ICT Project Work Experience Placement Personal Learning and Thinking Skills (PLTS)Functional Maths, English ICT Project Work Experience Placement Personal Learning and Thinking Skills (PLTS)Functional Maths, English ICT Project Work Experience Placement Personal Learning and Thinking Skills (PLTS)Functional Maths, English ICT Project Work Experience Placement
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Progression
A clear choice of qualification routes
Degree
Level 4
Level 3
Level 2
Level 1
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Specialist Learning Advanced Level

• Infection prevention and control
• Health, wellbeing and lifestyle
• Addressing needs
• Supporting adults through transitions
• Causes of and responses to offending behaviour
• Impact of offending behaviour on individuals
  communities
• Supporting children and young peoples
  development

• Play and learning
• Supporting children young people through
  transitional processes
• Health conditions and treatments
• Nutrition and health
• Specialist study area in adult social care
• Group work
• Leadership management
• Ethical dilemmas, judgments decision making
  in social care practice

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Named Pathways

• General available from 2008
• Available from 2009
• Childrens Workforce
• Health
• Adult Social Care
• Community Justice

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Awarding Bodies

• Edexcel - approved for 2008
• OCR working towards 2009
• CG/AQA working towards 2009
• EDI working towards 2009
• CACHE plan to deliver specialist learning

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Assessment

• Foundation 30 GLH externally assessed
• Higher 60 GLH externally assessed
• Advanced180 GLH externally assessed
• Extended project guidance as for A levels
• Graded
• UCAS points Advanced level equivalent to 3.5 A
  levels

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The Role of Employers

• Support local consortia strategically
• Provide work shadowing experience for teaching
  staff
• Be a guest speaker
• Be a student mentor
• Provide work experience for students
• Support students with their projects extended
  project at advanced level
• Become a Diploma champion

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Quotes It goes straight to the heart of what it
is to be a community

• Barnados, Deputy Chief Constable Hogg of
  Cleveland Police, Mandy Pointon National
  Offender Management Service (NOMS)/Home Office
  Harbinder Kaur, Phoenix Futures Bill McClimont,
  UK Homecare Association Steve Day Assistant
  Director Brandon Trust Paul Ennals Chief
  Executive, National Childrens Bureau Royal
  Liverpool Childrens Julian Hartley Chief
  Executive, Blackpool Fylde and Wyre Hospitals
  Ashton Leigh and Wigan NHS Trusts Susan
  Goldstein, North East Strategic Health Authority
  David H Griffith, HR Lead, Homerton University
  Hospital NHS Foundation Trust..

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On Going Development

• To June 2008 support qualification development
  by ABs
• Consider need for additional/specialist learning
  content especially for the adult social care and
  childrens workforce
• Ongoing support for learning providers

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The Future

• 42 consortia approved for SHD first teaching in
  2008, 60 for 2009
• Phase 2 Diplomas, first teaching 2009
• Phase 3 Diplomas, first teaching 2010 includes
  Sport and Active Leisure
• Languages, science and humanities, first teaching
  2011
• National entitlement for all 17 diplomas from 2013

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HEI Involvement

• Champion (Professor Deian Hopkins VC London
  South Bank)
• Diploma Development Partnership
• Curriculum Advisory Board
• Reader Panel
• Gateway
• UCAS
• Other Diplomas

• HEI Forum
• Qualification Quality Assurance Group
• HEI or faculty endorsement
• Advocate

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