CHCECE026 Work in partnership with families to provide appropriate education and care for children.

Workplace Task

CHCECE026
Work in partnership with families to provide
appropriate education and care for children

Workplace Assessment Task

Unit Purpose
The assessment tasks within this unit provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate evidence of the
knowledge and skills required to work in partnership with families to provide appropriate education and care
for the child.

Elements
The following elements define the essential outcomes of this unit:

 Element 1 Provide families with opportunities to be involved in the service

 Element 2 Provide information to families about their child

 Element 3 Provide information to families about the service

 Element 4 Provide information about community services and resources

Assessment Requirements
 001: Communicating with Parents – Special Issues and Concerns

 002: Family Involvement

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Authenticity Requirements
Copying or passing off someone’s work as your own is a form plagiarism and may result in a participant’s
exclusion from a unit or the entire course.

The following activities will be considered plagiarism:

 Presenting any work by another individual as one's own intentionally or unintentionally

 Handing in work copied from another student.

 Presenting the work of another individual or group as their own work.

 Handing in work without the adequate acknowledgement of sources used, including work
taken totally or in part from the internet.

You must PRINT AND SIGN this document

Student Declaration
You must sign your completed workplace tasks and acknowledge the authenticity of your work prior to
submission to the College.

I understand my responsibility to provide assessment responses with my own materials and thoughts,
except where specifically acknowledged or taken from other sources. The material contained in these tasks
is my own work.

I understand that at any time if it is shown, that in an assessment task, a student has significantly
misrepresented material, any assessment outcome awarded to that student on the basis of this material
may be revoked including any qualification outcomes and/ or statement of attainment

Name: Signature: Date:

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Assessment Instructions
Students are required to complete a range of assessment tasks throughout the training period to
demonstrate competency in each relevant unit. To facilitate the appropriate learning and practice of
developing skills ALL workplace assessment tasks MUST be completed within a regulated children's service.
Workplace supervisors must authenticate these tasks have been completed, under supervision and to an
acceptable workplace standard for organisation policies and procedures.

Attempting assessment tasks

Assessment Outcomes
The Early Childhood Education and Care training packages are vocational qualifications that are competency
based. For each assessment undertaken you will be assessed as Satisfactory, Not Yet Satisfactory or
Incomplete. Where students are assessed as ‘Not Yet Satisfactory’ or ‘Incomplete’ the trainer/assessor will
provide the student with feedback and guidance regarding what needs to be completed for resubmission.

Student Appeals
Students have the right to appeal an unfavourable decision or finding during assessment. All student appeals
must be made in writing using the Appeals Form and specify the particulars of the decision or finding in
dispute. Appeals must be lodged within 28 days of the decision or finding.

Required Readings
In order to complete this unit of competency you are required to access the following key resources.

Textbook

 Kearns, K. (2017). Frameworks for Learning and Development: Working in Early Childhood
Education and Care Series (4th ed.). Victoria: Cengage Learning Australia. (Accessed April
2017)

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001 Communicating with Parents – Special Issues and

Element 2 Provide information to families about their child

Element 4 Provide information about community services and resources

Activity 1
To complete this task refer to Chapter 8 of your textbook ‘Frameworks for Learning and Development’.

True partnerships require a relationship of trust and a willingness to share information that results in positive
outcomes for all parties.

For this task you are required to investigate how the service consults with a family where there are special
issues or concerns. Examples of special issues or concerns include:

 Medical.
 Nutrition.
 Learning and development.
 Behaviour.

To undertake this task you will need to talk to your supervisor or service Director and/or access policies
related to communicating with families.

Document your answers on the ‘Consulting with Families’ template.

Workplace Task 001

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Consulting with Families

Describe the policy or protocol that is in place to address issues or concerns a parent has in
relation to their child.

Who is responsible for consulting on special issues or concerns with the parent/s?

Describe the process used by the educator to prepare for the consultation.

Describe how the consultation process is documented.

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Where such consultation occurs, what are the mutual obligations of the educator and the
parent/s?

How does the service assist families to access community services and resources?

How does the service ensure they maintain the currency of contact details for community
services and resources that are provided to families?

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002 Family Involvement

Element 1 Provide families with opportunities to be involved in the service

Element 3 Provide information to families about the service

Element 4 Provide information about community services and resources

Performance Evidence

Knowledge Evidence

Activity 1
To complete this task refer to Chapter 8 of your textbook ‘Frameworks for Learning and Development’.

Families will contribute to the service in a variety of ways with the time and skills/knowledge they have
available. For this task you are required to research how families can contribute to the service and the
program.

Document your answers on the ‘Family Involvement’ template.

Workplace Task 002

Family Involvement

Does the service have a parent/family involvement policy and/or procedure?

Summarise the key points of the policy and procedure or attach copies to your assessment.

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Does the service provide parent/family information translated into other languages?

List the name of the document and the languages information for parents/families is provided in. For
example, Parent Fee Schedule – English and Arabic.

Describe how parents can contribute to the service in different roles, for example, advisory
role, consultative role and decision make role?

Describe how parents can provide feedback on the service.

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