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CHCECE016 Establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children. Theory Tasks: Trainer Assessment Summary Sheet

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This booklet contains assessment tasks that needs to be completed and will allow you to provide evidence toward gaining your qualification of which this unit if forming part of.

Assessment Strategy

When you have completed all assessment tasks, complete the information at the front of the booklet and submit it to your trainer. Your trainer will provide you with feedback and you will be assessed as Competent or Not Yet Competent in this unit. If you are assessed as Not Yet Competent you will have an opportunity to be reassessed or you can lodge an appeal against assessment decision.

Practical Placement

Assessments that are require role-play and simulation shall be completed as per time frame agreed with the Trainer/Assessor.

Timeframe for submission of practical work placement activity shall be within one week of completion of the work placement and final visit of Trainer / Assessor at the site for assessment.

If you do not achieve the required standard and assessed as Not Yet Competent, you will be given the opportunity to be re-assessed by Assessor. Arrangements will be made on an individual basis.

You are required to submit re-assessment within six weeks of the decision communication date.

Assessor will provide feedback to students after the completion of the assessment.

How to lodge assessments:

You can hand over your assessment preferably to your assessor or if assessor is not available then to training manager. Please remember to get acknowledgement of your submission.

Students enrolled in online course can upload the assessments on their designated area or write the answers in designated area on website and click submit button when complete. Students who are enrolled on distance learning can send through mail addressing their Assessor / Training Manager or can be emailed to Assessor / Training Manager.

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CHCECE016 Establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children. Theory Tasks: Trainer

Reasonable adjustment

If you require any adjustments to accommodate a need in order to complete this assessment, please talk to your assessor. Arrangements will be put in place to ensure a fair and flexible approach is undertaken for this assessment. Learners may negotiate to customise assessment tasks to meet their individual needs in relation to workplace setting, interests, learning style, literacy or cultural background. Please note that the range or nature of the adjustment will ensure that the outcomes of the unit are not compromised. Please speak to your trainer/assessor for any special needs or refer to our special needs policy in student handbook.

CHCECE016 Establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children. Theory Tasks: Trainer

CHCECE016

The assessment tasks within this unit provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate evidence of the

knowledge and skills required to establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children.

Element 3 Promote and implement effective hygiene practices

Element 4 Take steps to control the spread of infectious diseases

• 001: Health Check

• 002: Medical Management Plan

• 007: Promoting Health and Safety

• 008: Planning for Excursions

• 010: Project Task: Provide for Children’s Comfort

Authenticity Requirements

• Presenting the work of another individual or group as their own work.

• Handing in work without the adequate acknowledgement of sources used, including work taken totally or in part from the internet.

Students are required to provide appropriate responses to the indicated questions for each task.

Assessment Outcomes

CHCECE016 Establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children. Theory Tasks: Trainer

Required Readings

• Education and Care Services National Regulations. (Dec 2016). Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs. Retrieved from:
http://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/~pdf/view/regulation/2011/653/full (Accessed April 2017)

• Guide to the National Quality Framework. (2017). Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (Accessed January 2018)

• Kidsafe Australia. (2013). Keeping children as safe as possible while travelling in motor vehicles: A guide for parents, carers and road safety practitioners. Kidsafe: NSW. Retrieved from
http://kidsafe.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Restraint-guidelines-brochure.pdf (Accessed January 2018).

• National Health and Medical Research Council. (2013). Staying Healthy: Preventing infectious diseases in early childhood education and care services (5th ed.). ACT: Commonwealth of Australia.

• Immunise Australia Program:

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To complete this task refer to (p. 1) of your reading:

b) When should you conduct this health assessment?

Question 2

To complete this task refer to (p. 71) of your reading:

b) For each of the common childhood illnesses, document:

To complete this task refer to your readings:

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Irene then asks if a relative or friend could care for Imogen today. Father responds: “No, that’s what we pay you to do. I don’t know why you’re making such a big issue of this. She just has a runny nose. If you put her to bed she’ll probably sleep for hours, so it’ll be an easy day’s work for you.”

Father then kisses Imogen and hurries out the door. Imogen, sensing the tension begins to cry. Irene comforts Imogen and goes to find her supervisor to tell her what has happened. Irene’s supervisor is annoyed with her: “Irene, you know the policy. You should have insisted that Imogen could not attend today. Put Imogen down for a sleep and then go and ring her father and see what time he’ll be back.”

To assist you with this task, refer to (pp. 123 – 129) of your textbook ‘The Big Picture’.

a) Document strategies educators can employ within their practice to prohibit the spread of infection for each of the following:

b) What is one strategy you can use with children to teach them good hygiene and prohibit the spread of infection?

To complete this task refer to (pp. 53) of your reading:

CHCECE016 Establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children Element 1 Support each child’s health needs
Element 2 Provide for each child’s comfort
Element 5 Ensure adequate supervision of children
Knowledge Evidence

Question 1

a) Initial enrolment:

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Scenario: Alexander

Alexander Brown (4 years 2 months) has a heart defect (ventricular septal defect).

Mr Brown, sounding annoyed says: ‘You know the doctor said it would be fine for him to play outside. We can’t wrap him up in cotton wool. It’s not fair to Alexander.”

Mrs Brown looks down, “I know, I just worry about him.”

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