Level 1
Baby Care in Group Settings
A practical introductory course for new or developing practitioners working with babies and toddlers aged birth to 24 months.
Build confidence in safe care routines, nutrition, supervision, hygiene, safeguarding, and responsive, developmentally appropriate practice. Includes clear guidance, demonstrations, and step-by-step routines to support high-quality, safe early years care.
Build confidence in safe care routines, nutrition, supervision, hygiene, safeguarding, and responsive, developmentally appropriate practice. Includes clear guidance, demonstrations, and step-by-step routines to support high-quality, safe early years care.
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Module Contents
Each module contains 1 x video lesson and 1 x multiple choice quiz.
- Module 1 — Introduction to the Baby Room
Learn the foundations of caring for babies and toddlers under 24 months, including specialist practice, practitioner expectations, and how EYFS principles guide daily care. - Module 2 — Baby-Specific Safeguarding
Understand injury red flags, non-mobile baby bruising, choking prevention, and your safeguarding duties as a practitioner. - Module 3 — Ratio Management and Safe Supervision
Learn how to maintain safe ratios, active supervision, and line-of-sight/line-of-hearing supervision during all care routines. - Module 4 — Safe Handling, Lifting and Physical Support
Gain confidence in lifting, holding, lowering, and supporting babies safely based on developmental readiness. - Module 5 — Attachment Theory (Introduction)
Discover how secure relationships, responsive care, and co-regulation support babies’ emotional security and wellbeing. - Module 6 — Nutrition and Feeding for Babies and Young Toddlers
Learn safe bottle-feeding, introducing solids, choking prevention, allergy awareness, and responsive feeding. - Module 7 — Quality Interactions With Babies
Understand how warm, attuned, developmentally appropriate interactions build early learning, communication, and emotional safety. - Module 8 — Understanding Developmental Milestones (0–12 Months)
Learn typical milestones for movement, communication, and play—and how they guide safe handling and early identification of concerns. - Module 9 — Health, Hygiene and Infection Control
Build essential knowledge on handwashing, sterilising, nappy changing hygiene, cross-contamination prevention, and EYFS health expectations. - Module 10 — Bottle Feeding: Safe, Responsive & Hygienic Practice
Understand step-by-step bottle preparation, sterilisation, feeding safety, allergy management, and responsive feeding cues. - Module 11 — Safe, Hygienic Nappy Changing in the Baby Room
Follow a clear, safe, and hygienic nappy-changing routine, including PPE, recording, safeguarding, and infection monitoring. - Module 12 — Safe Sleep for Babies and Toddlers
Learn safe sleep positions, equipment, bedding, monitoring, settling routines, and how to reduce risks such as overheating or positional asphyxia.
