Childcare Gcse

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Is this still a thing? I left school in 1989. One of my chosen "options" was Childcare! I did well and went on to gain more child related qualifications. I have worked professionally with children all my life. I remember there was one boy in the class, a nice lad called Cliff! I wonder now if he did it to meet girls! Nice to think he might just have loved children though. I also did Office Studies which I loved. I can't fully remember it exactly but it wasn't typing etc, I think it more involved how to correctly word letters, file and so on which appealed to my orginisational brain.
Anyone else do these? I don't think they are still available subjects? I also did Metalwork, Woodward and
Sewing as general subjects! My mind is blown that a local school is doing ab Animal Care Gcse.

Oh yes I recall childcare being a GCSE. I didn’t take it. I took craft design & technology (CDT) and IT (pre PCs lol). I did part of a YTS on office management for touch typing, filling and databases on those all in one computers with the black screen with green display.

It’s Health & Social Care now, at the school I worked at. Not GCSE, a BTech type course. Part course work, part controlled assessment.

I did GCSE’s about 20 years ago and have never heard of any of those!

Yes, this was definitely available at my DD's secondary a few years ago when we were at options night. I remember at the talk thinking they were priming them for working in care homes.

There's an stigma attattched to H&SC, i think. I have no idea why or what is covered on the syllabus. Is it supposed to be a course that less academic students take? I am sure some perfectly able people do it too, for reasons other than caring in care homes although the more people in those with qualifications, the better. However, I have a degree in English Literature and Theatre Studies and returned to college afterwards to do a Btec in Childcare and Education - the more academic alternative to the old NNEB. I was in a class of mainly 16/17 years old girls and SOME left the course fairly quickly after realising there was a lot of written work as opposed to just, "looking after kids".

DC school has child development for year 10 and 11. It isn’t a GCSE but a Cambridge National Certificate. The exam board is OCR. So it’s still available.

@Middlemarch123 childcare still exists but I think a lot of schools do H&Sc as its a broader range of skills and still allows you to access childcare at level 3.

A lot of our H&Sc students go on to do midwifery, nursing, social work and childcare qualifications.

Also it's not coursework anymore it's an exam and two controlled assessments. It's not for lower level learners despite BTECs always being more 'vocational'. It was brought in line with gcse a couple of years ago and it's much harder now to achieve a level 2 pass.

I think it was a btec at my sons school.

There is a Cambridge National & a BTEC now available. I've taught CamNat for years.
Health & Social care is a different course that doesn't just focus on children.

I did a gcse in child development. When we looked at schools one did a Btec in it.