Introduction to Baby and Toddler Care

Unit 1  – Support children’s health, safety and wellbeing

• Health and hygiene regulatory requirements
• Health safety and wellbeing of children
• The National Quality Framework (NQF)
• Education and Care Services National Law and Regulations
• National Quality Standards (NQS)
• Policies and procedures
• Discussion modelling and repetition techniques
• Identify and respond to non-compliance practices
• Seek and share information about children’s health
• Confidentiality about children’s health needs
• Risk management strategies
• Medical management plans
• Long term medical conditions (diabetes, epilepsy, asthma and anaphylaxis)
• Medical requirements for medication administration
• Storing medications
• Administering medications
• Responding to illness and injury
• Encourage participation in physical activity
• Participating with children
• Monitoring children
• Planned and spontaneous physical activities
• Discussions with children
• Promoting enjoyable mealtimes
• Healthy lifestyles and good nutrition
• Support healthy eating at mealtimes
• The importance of water
• Food safety policies and procedures
• Share information with families supporting a healthy lifestyle
• Individualised sleep and rest practices
• Restful play areas and activities
• Respecting children’s privacy
• Clothing requirements
• Exchanging information with families
• Regulatory requirements for supervising children
• Communication methods with children
• Adjusting supervision levels
• Exchanging information about supervision
• Checking safety of environment
• Use store and label dangerous products
• Ensure safe collection of children
• Supervising visitors
• Assist children to recognise and respond to potential hazards
• Teach children personal appropriate protective actions
• Promote sun safety
• Check that toys and equipment are safe
• Reacting promptly to illness, spills of bodily fluids
• Infection control
• Informing parents and excluding sick children
• Identify illness and prevent cross-contamination
• Reporting illness infection or accident
• Cleaning the service environment
• Cleaning equipment and furnishings

Unit 2  – Nurture babies and toddlers

• Provide consistent and positive care routines
• Communicating to support learning and development
• Attachment influences development
• Facilitating attachment
• Cultural impacts on attachment
• Recognising interactions and cues
• Responding to interactions and cues
• Methods to enhance relationship-building skills
• Gathering information from the child’s home
• Stress due to separation
• Signs of stress due to separation
• Responses to identified stress
• Unexpected stress at separation
• Engaging with children in the presence of family
• Communication methods
• Communication with families
• Problems (issues and concerns)
• Confirm sleep and rest arrangements
• Preparing cots and mattresses
• Monitor sleep and rest
• Changing nappies
• Nappy changing procedures and handwashing
• Positive nappy changing and toileting experiences
• Establishing consistent toileting experiences
• Learning to use the toilet
• Positive and sensitive support
• Regression learning to use the toilet
• Promote positive mealtime environments
• Attending to babies individual needs during meal times
• Store, prepare, heat and serving food and drinks
• Food safety standards
• Cleaning feeding utensils and equipment
• Creating a supportive breastfeeding environment
• Provide safe areas and resources
• Practicing gross motor skills
• Supervising babies and toddlers appropriately
• Exploration in development
• Making the environment safe
• Relaxed, clam and responsive environments
• The National Quality Framework (NQF)
• The National Quality Standard (NQS)
• NQS ratings
• Two approved learning frameworks
• Principles and practice
• Learning outcomes
• 24 hours movement guidelines
• Stages of development (babies and toddlers)