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SCMA Childminders: Infection Prevention and Control in Childcare Settings
This Open Badge is designed to support Childminders to understand the importance of ensuring they provide a safe environment for children to develop and grow. This is at the heart of good childcare practice and allows childminders to reflect on the care they provide by raising awareness of health and safety issues when caring for children.
This Open Badge is designed to support Childminders to understand the importance of ensuring they provide a safe environment for children to develop and grow. This is at the heart of good childcare practice and allows childminders to reflect on the care they provide by raising awareness of health and safety issues when caring for children.
This Open Badge is awarded to childminders who can demonstrate their understanding of the need to:
· Identify and manage health and safety issues.
· Define and provide a safe environment.
· Meet the requirements of the Health and Social Care Standards.
To earn this badge you will need to:
- Have completed the SCMA Infection Prevention and Control in Childcare Settings CPL workshop or completed the SCMA Infection Prevention and Control in Childcare Settings eLearning programme.
Tell us the following:
- What is your understanding of the importance of identifying and managing health and safety issues and current best practice?
- Explain what a safe environment should look like and measures you will take to ensure your environment is safe at all times, whilst meeting the requirements of the Health and Social Care Standards.
- Tell us how you will use what you have learnt on the course to improve and develop your practice in this area.
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Provide a statement, of around 200 words, telling us why you meet the criteria for this badge. Read the criteria carefully before submitting your statement, as your application will be declined if you don’t cover all of it within your evidence. Submit your statement using the badge application form below.
Remember, the evidence you provide will be viewable by anyone who you show your badge to. Please don’t include confidential or private information within your evidence.
Badge issuer
Scottish Childminding Association
The Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA) is the only organisation dedicated to supporting childminders in Scotland. Our aim is to promote childminding as a quality childcare service. We do this in part by helping SCMA childminders to be the best they can be.
Submit your application
The SCMA Open Badge system relies on trust. We trust that the evidence you provide will be of your own work and based on your own skills and knowledge. By submitting an application you agree to the following statement: “In studying and completing the activities for this badge, I confirm that all the work provided as evidence will be my own.” The SCMA will revoke a badge if the evidence provided is discovered to have been the work of someone else.
Your evidence, name, and email address will be sent to the organisation who issue this badge