NCFE CACHE Level 2 Diploma for the Early Years Practitioner

How is this course assessed or examined?

How are you assessed?

Your progress is assessed over the course of 14 units of study. Each unit provides tasks and assignments carefully designed to aid your knowledge-based learning. Skills based outcome must be achieved with reference to a real work environment and must include direct observation within the workplace.

Do you need to be working to take the qualification?

Learners will need to be working, volunteering or on a practical placement to show competence in both knowledge and skills. Learners are recommended to complete 250 placement hours in a childcare setting to gain the relevant skills-based experience.

During your placement, observation by an assessor or qualified teacher is required.

We recommend finding yourself an assessor, but they will need to be suitably qualified and evidence of this will be required. If needed, your tutor can provide information, support and training for your chosen observer to fully understand the requirements of observation. Find out what is required of an assessor here. If you are unable to find a suitable assessor, we can send one of our tutors to complete the observation for an additional fee, just let us know.

Your learner journey will be tracked with an Evidence Record and Record of Assessment Cycle form.

Assessors and Internal Quality Assurance

Staff involved in the assessment and internal quality assurance of this qualification must be able to demonstrate that they have (or are working towards) the relevant occupational knowledge and/or occupational competence, at the same level or higher than the units being assessed and internally quality assured. This may be gained through experience and/or qualifications.

To support Early Years Settings, the UKCIS Education Working Group has developed two documents to help Early Years Settings managers and staff consider their practice and to take steps to safeguard both children and adults online