Application

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to develop, implement and evaluate a sustainability management plan and support children’s environmental responsibility.

This unit applies to educators who develop and implement practices according to established organisational policies in a regulated children’s education and care service in Australia. Work is undertaken collaboratively according to the philosophy of the service and involves providing guidance to others.

The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian standards and industry codes of practice.

No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Pre-requisite Unit

Nil

Competency Field

Early Childhood Education and Care

Unit Sector

Children’s Education and Care

Foundation Skills

Unit Mapping Information

Release 1. CHCECE049 Embed environmental responsibility in service operations supersedes and is not equivalent to CHCECE025 Embed sustainable practices in service operations.

Assessment Conditions

Skills must be demonstrated in a regulated children’s education and care service in Australia:

• performance evidence may be collected through authenticated third-party reports
• third-party reports must be supplemented by other forms of evidence
• interactions with children must be supervised by an approved early childhood educator

Skills related to design and evaluation may be demonstrated outside of the service, but the plan must be based on work in a regulated children’s education and care service in Australia.

Assessment must ensure access to:

• information technology for documentation
• National Quality Framework:

• National Quality Standard
• the relevant approved learning framework

• service standards, policies and procedures for:

• physical environment

• adults for consultation activities
• children in a regulated children’s education and care service in Australia.

Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors.