Children, Young People and Families Practitioner Apprenticeship

This apprenticeship leads to a mandatory qualification for anyone working with young people in a residential setting. You could be working in a number of settings such as a children’s home, a residential special school or a secure children’s home. The children might be living on their own or in a larger group.

The apprenticeship offers two options:

• Practitioner in Children’s Residential Care
• Children, Young People and Families Practitioner within the Community

You should be aged 19+ and working in a residential environment with young people. 

You should have a DBS which is checked and confirmed and will need GCSEs graded 4/D in Maths and English or above.

The kind of issues you will cover include: 

• Current processes and legislation within the young persons setting
• The range of potential safeguarding risk factors (such as domestic violence, membership of gangs, missing children, online activity, radicalisation and Prevent agenda)
• The different forms of harm to children and vulnerable adults (such as neglect, child sexual exploitation, physical abuse and emotional abuse)
• The local and national thresholds for safeguarding
• Safeguarding requirements within a young persons setting
• Child, adolescent and adult development
• Maths and English Level 2

You will learn in the workplace with 1-1 support from your assessor. You will also be expected to undertake independent learning. 

You need a laptop for your e-portfolio.

• Observation
• Underpinning knowledge questions
• Professional discussion
• Products of work
• Projects
• Exams for Maths and English unless exempt
• End Point Assessment conducted by Pearsons

You could progress to a Level 5 programme, depending on your job role. 

For more information, contact Derby College Group on 0800 0280289 or enquiries@derby-college.ac.uk

There are no costs for the apprentice but the employer is to pay 5% of the funding.