DT0H 04 (CCLD 319)Promote Healthy Living for Children and Families

DT0H 04 (CCLD 319)Promote healthy living for children and families

Elements of competence

CCLD 319.1Enable children and families to identify healthy living options

CCLD 319.2Encourage and support children and families to implement healthy lifestyles

About this Unit

This Unit is concerned with supporting healthy living, working with families to identify options, access information and make changes.

This Unit is suitable for you if you work with children and families either assisting health professionals or within programmes such as Sure Start or related activity.

Keywords

What we mean by some of the words used in this Unit
Healthy living / Adopting ways of life that help to maintain or bring about good health and extend life expectancy
Lifestyle / The choices people make about how they live their lives
Life-limiting health conditions / Chronic illnesses, diseases and health conditions that shorten life expectancy

Evidence Requirements for the Unit

It is essential that you adhere to the Evidence Requirements for this Unit

GENERAL GUIDANCE

Evidence must be provided for ALL of the performance criteria and ALL of the knowledge.
Work with children and families does not lend itself to a series of fragmented activities. When assessment planning it is essential that assessors and candidates identify opportunities to integrate a number of activities for assessment on any particular occasion.
Assessment of knowledge and understanding should wherever possible be carried out during performance to ensure that theory and practice are linked.
The evidence must reflect, at all times, the policies and procedures of your workplace as linked to current legislation and the values and the principles for good practice in children’s care, learning and development.
All evidence must relate to your own work practice.

SPECIFIC Evidence Requirements for this unit
Simulation:

Simulation is not permitted for this unit.

The following forms of evidence ARE mandatory:

Direct Observation: Your assessor or expert witness must observe you in real work activities which will provide evidence of some part of each element in this unit.
Reflective Accounts: You should describe your actions in a particular situation and explain why you did things. You may be able to use a reflective account to provide some of the performance evidence for this unit. e.g. the effectiveness of your work with an individual family who are reluctant to change.

Issues for consideration:

The following performance criteria may be difficult to evidence by observation.

Element 1 – PC 1
Element 2 – PCs 3 and 5
Competence of performance and knowledge could also be demonstrated using a variety of evidence from the following:

Questioning/Professional Discussion: Questions may be oral or written. In each case the question and your answer will need to be recorded. Professional discussion should be in the form of a structured review of your practice with the outcomes captured by means of audiotape or a written summary. These are particularly useful to provide evidence that you know and understand principles which support practice, policies, procedures and legislation, and that you can critically evaluate their application e.g. what is meant by healthy living, the role of the practitioner in supporting children and families wishing to make changes to their lifestyles. In addition the assessor/expert witness may also ask questions to clarify aspects of your practice.
Products: These are non-confidential records made, or contributed to, by you, e.g. information on health and healthy lifestyles derived from a variety of sources, information on the impact of lifestyle changes on health and well-being, information about relevant local activities for children and families, information from anti-smoking or anti obesity campaigns.
Confidential Records: These are non-confidential records made, or contributed to, by you, e.g. information on health and healthy lifestyles derived from a variety of sources, information on the impact of lifestyle changes on health and well-being, information about relevant local activities for children and families, information from anti-smoking or anti obesity campaigns.
Original Certificates and other evidence of prior experience and learning: Where you have relevant prior experience it must match the requirements of the standards. Certificates of training, awards and records of attendance must be authentic, current and valid. Your assessor will also want to check the content of such training so that this can be matched to the standards and check that you have retained and can apply learning to practice, e.g. previous vocationally related qualifications, health based training, working with children and/or families with life limiting conditions, nutrition training.
Case Studies, projects, assignments: These methods are most appropriately used to cover any outstanding areas in the knowledge requirement of your award e.g. assignments or investigations into specific areas of health and well-being.
Witness Testimony: Colleagues, allied professionals, children, young people, families and carers may be able to provide testimony of your performance. Your assessor will help you to identify the appropriate use of witnesses.

Knowledge specification for this unit

Assessment of knowledge and understanding should wherever possible be carried out during performance to ensure theory and practice are linked.

You need to provide evidence for ALL knowledge points listed below:

To be competent in this Unit, you must know and understand the following: / Enter Evidence Numbers
1What is meant by healthy lifestyles according to government guidelines recommendations; what these are
2Key features of evidence based research and sources of information covering

Prevention of obesity through diet and exercise
Effects of smoking
Drug and alcohol issues

3The major life-limiting health conditions that can be minimised or prevented by lifestyle changes
4What is meant by realistic changes to lifestyle and how these are dependent on the personal circumstances of the children and families involved
5Why healthy lifestyles are particularly important for children
6The type of routines and activities that could be used to demonstrate healthy living: regularly as part of normal daily activities and occasionally e.g. as part of a health promotion campaign
7How you can discuss healthy living with families and children in ways that encourage families to attempt change
8Where information can be obtained about health and healthy living that is independent and unbiased
9Ways in which you can motivate and encourage families and children in their efforts to make changes
10What additional help families might need to implement healthy changes and where this might be available locally
10aSources of reliable information about sexual health and how people can access support
10bSources of reliable information about mental health and how people can access support
11Your own support needs, whether you have a peripatetic or setting based role, how you might access support and from whom

CCLD 319.1 Enable children and families to identify healthy living options

Performance criteria
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DO / RA / EW / Q / P / WT
1Discuss with families the long and short-term health implications of different lifestyles on adults and children and the benefits of healthy living
2Identify opportunities to raise awareness of healthy living choices during regular routines and activities
3Identify and select opportunities to discuss healthy changes to lifestyle with individual children and their families
4Plan and implement programmes and activities that demonstrate aspects of healthy living
5Provide information to raise awareness and facilitate change

CCLD 319.2 Encourage and support children and families to implement healthy lifestyles

Performance criteria
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DO / RA / EW / Q / P / WT
1Help families to identify realistic changes to their lifestyle
2Help families plan and implement recognised healthy choices
3Acknowledge, support and reward families’ efforts to make changes to their lifestyle
4Assist families to recognise and monitor the benefits to their health and well-being of lifestyle changes
5Direct families towards additional help and assistance, when required, to help them implement lifestyle changes

DO = Direct ObservationRA = Reflective AccountQ = Questions

EW = Expert Witness P = Product (Work)WT = Witness Testimony

To be completed by the Candidate
I SUBMIT THIS AS A COMPLETE UNIT
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Date: …………………………………………………………..
To be completed by the Assessor
It is a shared responsibility of both the candidate and assessor to claim evidence, however, it is the responsibility of the assessor to ensure the accuracy/validity of each evidence claim and make the final decision.
I certify that sufficient evidence has been produced to meet all the elements, pcS AND KNOWLEDGE OF THIS UNIT and that the candidate has demonstrated the application of the princIples and values.
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Date: …………………………………………………………..
Assessor/Internal Verifier Feedback
To be completed by the Internal Verifier if applicable
This section only needs to be completed if the Unit is sampled by the Internal Verifier
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Unit: DT0H 04 (CCLD 319) Promote healthy living for children and families