Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care

About this qualification

CHC50125 is where an educator stops delivering someone else's programme and starts designing it. The register describes educators “responsible for designing and implementing curriculum that meets the requirements of an approved learning framework and for maintaining compliance in other areas of service operations”, who “may have responsibility for supervising” others.

Fifteen units — twelve core and three electives. The core moves from supporting children to running a service: maintaining a safe and healthy environment, fostering learning and development, nurturing creativity, facilitating compliance, positive interactions and behaviour, inclusion strategies, analysing information to inform learning, planning and implementing curriculum, embedding environmental responsibility, partnering with families, reflective practice, and managing team effectiveness.

This qualification has real entry requirements. The register requires CHC30121 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care, its equivalent successor, or CHC30113. You cannot start here — it is one of only a handful of qualifications in this directory with a hard gate.

CHCECE044 Facilitate compliance in a children's education and care service is core, and it is the unit that separates this from the Certificate III. At Diploma level you are accountable for the service meeting its obligations, not just for the children in your room.

Roles it maps to

Roles described on the national register for CHC50125.

Where it sits

Where CHC50125 sits in the early childhood stream.

1. Certificate IIICHC30125 Early Childhood Education and Care
2. Diploma · you are hereCHC50125 Early Childhood Education and Care
3. Advanced DiplomaCHC62015 Community Sector Management