Components of framework

• Diploma in Health and Social Care (Adults) for England (QCF)
  There are different pathways available on the diploma: generic, dementia and learning disability. For more information visit: Diploma in Health and Social Care.
  
• Certificate in Preparing to Work in Adult Social Care (QCF)
  This certificate is the knowledge component of the Apprenticeship framework. For more information visit: preparing to work in adult social care.
  
• Award in Employment Responsibilities and Rights in Health, Social Care, Children and Young People's Settings (ERR)
  This one unit award covers the Employment Responsibilities and Rights (ERR) requirement addressing all nine targets through a contextualised approach. For more information visit: employment responsibilities and rights.
  
• Transferable skills
  Currently there is a choice of offering either Key Skills or Functional Skills within an Apprenticeship. This will end 30 September 2012. The list of all applicable Transferable Skills can be found in the Apprenticeship framework in front of every pathway. The current framework document can be found here
  Transferable skills FAQs
  
  Key Skills Information (Exemptions and proxies for key skills only): Key Skills Policy & Practice - Your Questions Answered (See section 2.3). This information is only valid until September 2012 when Key Skills registration will cease.
  
• Personal Learning and Thinking Skills (PTLS)
  These are identified as essential to successful life learning and work that will provide apprentices with a solid foundation and the ability to transfer skills to other areas.
  We have mapped these against our knowledge and competence qualifications and they are fully embedded within these qualifications. For the purposes of the framework, providers are asked to download the mapping matrix from: - PLTS mapping matrices.
  The Personal Learning and Thinking Skills Map (PLTS) will be used to evidence achievement for those apprentices undertaking the SASE-compliant framework.

Supporting information

Training provider guide - A detailed guide on delivering all of the components in the Apprenticeship framework can be found here

Framework certification - Information for certification for the health pathway of the Health and Social Care Apprenticeship Framework can be accessed here