Programme + Advanced Certificate Bundle

Level 4 + Level 5 Diploma in Early Learning and Childcare with Advanced Certificate in Supporting Children with Special Educational Needs in Mainstream Settings

Earn your Level 4 + Level 5 Diploma in Early Learning and Childcare and add the employer-focused Advanced Certificate in Supporting Children with Special Educational Needs in Mainstream Settings on top — a double credential from one enrolment, for just £25 extra.

Why Combine These Two Credentials?

The Level 4 + Level 5 Diploma in Early Learning and Childcare gives you the full, accredited foundation — and the Advanced Certificate in Supporting Children with Special Educational Needs in Mainstream Settings sharpens it into a specialism employers search for. You study both together, in one flexible online enrolment with LSBR.

You will learn to support children with special educational needs in mainstream settings, building on the SEND module in the main programme, and enabling you to provide targeted and effective support.

Complete both and your CV carries two named credentials: the Level 4 + Level 5 Diploma in Early Learning and Childcare and the Advanced Certificate in Supporting Children with Special Educational Needs in Mainstream Settings.

What You Will Study

Core modules of the Level 4 + Level 5 Diploma in Early Learning and Childcare:

  • Child development and enabling children to learn
  • Physical activity and nutrition co-ordination (PANCo) in early years
  • Supporting children with additional needs
  • Partnership working in early years settings
  • Legal Requirements in Childcare
  • Implementing and evaluating change through a research project
  • Management of children’s care
  • Children’s well-being and resilience
  • Positive behaviour in early years
  • Child development and communication skills in early years
  • Managing children’s holistic development in early years
  • Developing children’s literacy skills
  • Developing children’s mathematical skills
  • Safeguarding in early years
  • Health and safety in early years
  • Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) in early years
  • PLUS: Advanced Certificate in Supporting Children with Special Educational Needs in Mainstream Settings — your focused specialisation on top of the main programme

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