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Healthcare Diploma for 14-19 year olds
Teaching towards a new diploma in Health and Social Care for 14-19 year olds will begin in 2008. From 2013, all 14-year-olds will be able to take the new specialist diploma in health, social care, community justice and the children's workforce.
The new qualification, designed to equip young people with the skills needed by employers, is one of a series of applied learning diplomas that will be created over the next decade.
The Diploma in Health and Social Care will include opportunities to learn at work or in realistic work environments and outside of school. Students will continue to with their national curriculum entitlement from 14-16 and will learn functional ICT, English and Maths.
As well as the more specialised content of their diploma they will have the opportunity to develop the personal, learning and thinking skills that underpin the employability skills that are desired by the sectors.
The diploma is not occupationally driven but designed to support young people to ensure that the choices they make for their future learning or work are well informed and that they are well prepared.The government wants employers to play a key role in developing the curriculum for the new diploma.
To find out how you can help to shape the diploma curriculum, contact Kevin Simmonds on 020 7641 1301 or come to a special meeting on Thursday 30 March.
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