Work with Parents - Childcare training, Management training in Devon. Level 2 Certificate and Level 3 Diploma for Children and Young People’s Workforce

Award/Certificate in Work with Parents

Get the skills you need to work effectively with parents, helping them to understand their role and meet their children’s social, emotional, intellectual and physical needs in family life.

What are the qualifications about?

Get the skills you need to work effectively with parents, helping them to understand their role and meet their children’s social, emotional, intellectual and physical needs in family life.

Awards and Certificates in Work with Parents can help you start a career, develop your role and continue your professional development.

Who are they for?

An Award or Certificate in Work with Parents is for anybody supporting and working with parents and children.

There are options to suit every level of experience – whether you’re looking for a first job, developing your career or already working as a manager for a parent support service.

Level 2:

You’re looking to start a career in work with parents. You may have some experience – perhaps you’re a parent yourself, you’ve been through parenting courses and are now a parenting mentor. You might also work as part of a team.

Level 3:

You deliver frontline services to parents and carers in children’s centres or extended schools.

Why choose City & Guilds?

A City & Guilds qualification is proof that you have the right skills to do your job well – which is why so many employers look for people who have one. You can be confident your qualification is well respected within your industry.

Level 3 Award in Work with Parents

You need to gain 12 credits.

There is 1 core unit:

Build and maintain relationships in work with parents (6 credits).

You then select 2 optional units from:

Work with parents to meet their children’s needs (3 credits)
Enable parents to develop ways of handling relationships and behaviour that contribute to everyday life with children (3 credits)
Enable parents to reflect on the influences in parenting and the parent-child relationship (3 credits)
Effective communication with parents (3 credits)
Build and maintain team relationships with colleagues engaged in work with parents (3 credits)
Reflect on and update own knowledge and practice (3 credits)
Build and maintain relationships with the wider community (3 credits)
Work with groups of parents (3 credits)
Provide services that meet parents’ needs (3 credits)
Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS) (6 credits)
Engage parents in their children’s early learning (3 credits)
Engage young parents in supporting their children’s early learning and development (3 credits)
Engage fathers in their children’s early learning (3 credits)
Work with parents to understand and meet their own needs (3 credits)
Deliver services that value and respect parents (3 credits)
Provide environments that are sensitive to the culture, religion, gender or disability of the parents (3 credits).

Full unit details are available within the qualification handbooks.