Health, Wellbeing Promotion and Safeguarding

This module focuses on health, wellbeing, and safeguarding, with an emphasis on the care needs of young children.  Students will explore concepts of health, health education and health promotion.  Students will investigate the aspects and dimensions of health and their dynamic interactions, allowing them to develop an understanding of complex factors including beliefs, values and attitudes that influence health-related behaviours.  The rights of children to a healthy lifestyle will be considered.  Student knowledge and understanding of the ecological impact of current societal and familial health issues such as addiction, mental health, physical activity and exercise will be developed.  Early childhood nutrition and healthy eating will also be explored. 

Students will practically apply aims and approaches to health education and health promotion; identifying strategies to promote the care of young children and to support the wellbeing of all stakeholders in early childhood settings.  Approaches to partnership working will be examined with consideration of supports for families with additional support needs. 

Students will gain a broad knowledge of current policy, legislation, guidance and working practices from both an international and local perspective.  Strategies to support and safeguard vulnerable children, including relevant child protection legislation, will be explored. 

At the end of this module the student will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the concepts of health, health education and health promotion in relation to the work of a childcare sector professional
• ​​Demonstrate an awareness of current key health issues and relevant documentation, reflecting on their impact on children’s development​
• Apply a range of approaches in safeguarding, child protection and related roles and procedures in an early learning and childcare setting

This is an SCQF Level 7 module and upon successful completion, participants will be awarded 20 credits.

Delivery

The module will be delivered at Lanarkshire campus on Fridays, time to be confirmed.

Course presenter

This module will be delivered by Ally Connelly.

NOTE: This is a university module and upon approval of your application, you will be invited to register and then supported to complete enrolment. To enrol on the university system, the first step involves security set-up using the Microsoft Authenticator app; you will need to ensure that you have a compatible smartphone.

Further information is available at the Student Information Portal.

To access this module via the CPD route, individuals should be ordinarily resident in Scotland.  If you do not meet this criteria, please enquire here.

Graduate Apprenticeship

In addition to being available on a CPD basis, this module is part of our fully funded Graduate Apprenticeship - BA Early Learning and Childcare.

Developed in response to A Blueprint for 2020: The Expansion of Early Learning and Childcare (2017) and Skills Development Scotland’s Skills Investment Plan for Scotland’s Early Learning and Childcare sector (2017), the GA offers a work-based learning route to developing qualified and competent Early Learning and Childcare practitioners.

For further information, please contact apprenticeships@uws.ac.uk