BTEC AAQ Early Childhood Development - Unit 2 (Bundle)

Everything you need to teach Unit 2: Keeping Children Safe from the new Pearson BTEC Level 3 AAQ in Early Childhood Development! This comprehensive bundle provides a complete, specification-aligned teaching and assessment programme covering all four learning aims: ● Aim A: Investigate legal responsibilities and approaches to health and safety in early years settings ● Aim B: Recognise hazards and risks to children ● Aim C: The Early Years Framework and Safeguarding ● Aim D: Respond to Child Abuse Unit 2 is externally assessed through an 80-mark examination lasting 1 hour and 45 minutes. The resources progressively develop the knowledge, application, analysis and evaluation skills students need for multiple-choice, short-answer, extended-response and case-study questions. **Materials included** ● Complete Scheme of Learning for each aim ● Full PowerPoint lesson sequence ● Pre-reading booklets ● Teacher guidance and suggested answers for lesson activities ● Knowledge checks and retrieval activities ● Exam-style questions throughout the lessons ● Model answers and structured writing support ● Aim assessments and detailed mark schemes ● Cumulative mock examinations ● Detailed mock-exam mark schemes ● Indicative content and Band 1–3 guidance for extended questions ● Revision and exam-preparation materials ● SCOPE writing guidance for extended responses **Content covered** * Aim A: Legal responsibilities and health and safety --> Students explore children’s rights, duty of care, reporting responsibilities, health and safety legislation, food hygiene, COSHH, statutory curriculum requirements, paediatric first aid and essential setting policies. * Aim B: Hazards and risks --> Students learn how to identify hazards, complete risk assessments, maintain safe indoor and outdoor environments, supervise children effectively, manage outings, select safe equipment and resources, support positive risk-taking and prevent or control infection. * Aim C: The Early Years Framework and Safeguarding --> Students examine the legal status of the EYFS, safeguarding and welfare requirements, safer recruitment, staff training and supervision, the key person role, medicines, food and drink, accidents, Ofsted notifications, equality, confidentiality and information sharing. * Aim D: Responding to child abuse --> Students study types and indicators of abuse, the impact of abuse on children, vulnerability, children’s voices, safe working practices, whistleblowing, responding to disclosures, recording and reporting concerns, child protection procedures and multi-agency working. **Designed to support teachers** The bundle has been created to provide a clear, structured teaching sequence while reducing planning and preparation time. Lessons contain detailed taught content, vocational early years examples, discussion opportunities, classroom activities, checks for understanding and regular exam practice. Suggested answers and teacher guidance make the resources suitable for subject specialists, non-specialist teachers and cover staff. All documents are editable, allowing them to be adapted to the needs of individual classes. **Designed to support students** Students receive regular opportunities to: ● Learn and apply key terminology ● Connect legislation, policies and procedures to early years practice ● Interpret vocational scenarios and case studies ● Develop accurate chains of reasoning ● Practise questions across the full range of assessment objectives ● Structure extended responses using the SCOPE approach ● Review their knowledge through retrieval and cumulative assessment ● Prepare confidently for the external examination A free sample containing Lessons 1 and 2 is also available, allowing you to review the teaching style, format and level of support before purchasing the complete bundle. All materials have been produced for the Pearson BTEC Level 3 AAQ in Early Childhood Development and aligned with the Unit 2: Keeping Children Safe specification. Any issues, please let me know! My email is alzionts+TES@gmail.com