The course is designed to provide learners with underpinning knowledge, understanding and skills of the health and social care sectors, providing a broad basis for further or higher education or for moving into employment within the sectors.

The content of the course includes knowledge of practitioner roles and values, relationships between contemporary policies and service provision and the impact of financial challenges on service provision in the UK.

Learners have the opportunity to explain how services and practitioners meet individual needs throughout the life stages. They develop skills including literacy and numeracy, critical thinking and problem solving, and planning and organisation.

Rachael McGirr

September 2023