Diploma in Children's Services - Placement

[sweetpea678]

I work at a training organization (we don't do children's services) but I had a quick look at the requirements, yes you need to do a total of 240 hours of experience, there is only one unit that specifies age range, of under 24 months and that's for 120 hours, the rest is in a education and care setting covering infants up to 12 year olds, but there is nothing saying you must do open and close times.

This is the new diploma that was released about 4 months ago now.


Fix up of requirements.

[Astrolady]

Thanks for that Sweetpea. I am on the new Diploma. They started a brand new class for us as we were doing the new one. The other class is doing the old one. The total hours of placement don't bother as we have two separate blocks to do it in. A 2 week block and a 4 week block at the end. So will quite happily do 8.30-4.30 at the Kindy 5 days a week (if I am allowed) My paid work is with under 2's. Having said that though parts of the placement blocks are in school holiday times, and the kindy won't be open. I can't do placement in holidays anyway, due to the kids.