Child Care and Nutrition for Young Children QLS Level 3

This Child Care and Nutrition for Young Children QLS Level 3 course is a knowledge-based course that will allow you to develop your knowledge and understanding of working in child care and how you provide a healthy diet that supports the nutritional needs of children in your early years setting. It is ideal for anyone working in a child care setting who wishes to expand their knowledge, or someone considering a career in child care. During the child care section of this bundle course, you will learn how to promote the wellbeing and healthy lifestyle of children in the setting, as well as gaining an understanding of chronic childhood diseases, the administrative procedures involved in a child care setting, and the learning and development of young children. The nutrition for young children section of your course will cover topics such as the main dietary principles for good nutrition for pre-school children; providing nutrition for children with food allergies, intolerances, or medical conditions; and the principles of a balanced diet.

Course Content

Child Care Level 3

Unit 1 Healthy living

• What is a healthy lifestyle?
• Exercise
• Healthy eating
• Activities for young children
• Wellbeing for children and their families

Unit 2 Child care at home

• Documentation required for a home child care business
• Intellectual development
• Supervision and travel to destinations away from the child care setting
• Good health and safety practices indoors and outdoors

Unit 3 Building positive relationships

• Current legal requirements
• Respecting and valuing individuality
• How to deal with conflict

Unit 4 Health promotion and development

• Types of foods that should be avoided
• Special dietary requirements
• Childhood chronic diseases and how they can affect development
• Government guidelines on food and nutrition

Unit 5 Administrative procedures within the child care setting

• Data Protection Act
• Keeping accurate and up-to-date information
• Methods and systems for recording financial information
• Tax and VAT
• Storing data

Unit 6 Development and learning

• Using ICT
• Safety concerns
• Literacy, language and communication
• Numeracy, reasoning skills and problem-solving
• Physical development
• Personal, social and emotional development
• Creative development

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 - preconception and during 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