Ascentis Level 1 Award in Supporting a Child’s Learning and Development

Qualification Overview

The Ascentis Award in Supporting a Child’s Learning and Development are designed to give formal recognition to the achievement of adult learners taking family learning courses. The accreditation is very flexible – there are a range of optional units which can be packaged in a number of ways. These reflect the wide variation of family learning courses on offer, each tailored to their target market, including Family Literacy, Language and Numeracy (FLLN) and Wider Family Learning.

Achievement of the Award at Level 1 will act as the first step in a ladder of progression towards further qualifications and/or employment.

There are several features of this qualification that make it very appropriate for its target learners

• Includes family literacy, language and numeracy and wider family learning units
• Assessment is through the building up of a portfolio of evidence, allowing the learner to put together evidence most appropriate to their learning situation
• A flexible optional unit structure that allows family learning accreditation to be appropriate to the particular target learners.
• Moderation and certification offered throughout the year, allowing maximum flexibility for centres.
• Developed by family learning practitioners to reflect the full range of family learning provision together with being relevant and up to date

Aims

The aims of the qualification are to enable learners:

• To increase awareness of the range of opportunities both within formal and informal learning to support a child’s learning and development
• To promote the value of learning within a family unit
• To enable the learner to identify their own future learning and development needs
• To encourage the learner to progress to employment or further learning opportunities

Target Group

This qualification is aimed at adult learners with children or those caring for children. These learners may have been out of education or employment for some time.

Assessment

All units are internally assessed through the learner building up a portfolio of evidence that covers the relevant assessment criteria, internally assessed and verified by the centre and then externally verified by Ascentis.