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The GCSE Health and Social Care, and Childcare qualification will support the Curriculum for Wales by: 

• supporting the statements of what matters by giving learners the opportunity to:
  • understand the factors that affect physical health and wellbeing throughout the lifespan including health-promoting behaviours e.g. physical activity, including an understanding of health-harming behaviours 
  • develop positive, informed behaviours that encourage learners to care for and respect themselves and others in a health and social care, and childcare context 
  • help learners explore the connections between their experiences, mental health and emotional wellbeing 
  • create a culture where talking about mental health and emotional wellbeing is normalised in health and social care, and childcare 
  • develop the critical-thinking skills necessary to consider their decision-making in terms of possible implications including risks, for themselves, and others 
  • engage critically with social influences within their own culture, as well as those of others, to understand how norms and values develop 
  • understand how decisions and actions impact on themselves, on others, and on wider society, both now and in the future 
  • help to understand the factors that influence decision-making, placing them in a better position to make more informed and considered decisions around health and social care, and childcare 
  • develop the critical-thinking skills necessary to consider decision-making in terms of possible implications in the health and social care, and childcare sectors. 
• supporting the principles of progression by encouraging learners to: 
  
  • develop their independence and agency in matters relating to health and wellbeing, resulting in a growing responsibility for their own health and wellbeing 
  • develop conceptual knowledge and critical understanding in a range of aspects of health and wellbeing and personal behaviour 
  • develop connections between aspects of health and wellbeing and a wide range of topics and issues in health and social care, and childcare contexts 
  • develop an appreciation for the needs of others in health and social care, and childcare contexts and the impact of decisions, actions and circumstances 
  • become more socially responsible
  • develop the understanding of advocacy on behalf of themselves and of others
  • through health and social care, and childcare contexts
• supporting the subject specific considerations for GCSE Health and Social Care, and Childcare by giving learners the opportunity to: 
  
  • develop literacy skills, being able to organise writing and adapt language confidently, enabling learners to apply for learning pathways and a preferred career, possibly in health and social care and/or childcare 
  • support learners to explore and understand in depth, developmental changes across the lifespan, as well as how those changes affect individuals in a range of different ways 
  • learn and understand how to assess and manage risk so they can keep themselves and others safe, including safeguarding within a health and social care, and childcare context 
  • reflect on the short-term, medium-term and long-term implications of the decisions they make. It should be recognised that learners do not necessarily have responsibility for many of the decisions affecting them and this responsibility grows over time 
  • understand the role that social influences can play on learner behaviour and the influences that can promote and encourage healthy prosocial behaviours, as well as those that lead to issues such as discrimination, racism or prejudice throughout the health and social care, and childcare sectors 
  • understand the role and importance of relationships such as family and friends, pets/animals, peers, professional, virtual, romantic, sexual, religious and spiritual – through health and social care, and childcare contexts, and those relationships which they may not yet be familiar with but are highly likely to encounter in their lives or whilst working in the sectors.