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Health & Social Care Level 2

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Getting Ahead

Health & Social Care Level 2

Welcome to your Getting Ahead summer work for the Health & Social Care Level 2 course. This work is designed to help you prepare for the exciting journey ahead by giving you an early insight into the topics and skills you’ll be developing throughout the year.

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Explain the skills and personal attributes (qualities) necessary for a range of people (including professionals) who care and support individuals with different needs – you may wish to reflect back on Activity 1.

‘Explain’ means to give an account of the purposes or reasons: ‘What, how, why…this is important because’.

Note: Identify the sources of information you have used i.e, books, journals, reliable and relevant internet sites.

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Ebony Puttock, A Level student

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Heidi Adamson Brattland, A Level student

My time at the college was definitely life changing, I have learnt a lot of new skills, and obviously it’s a completely new experience. The support was great, there was always people there to help and try make it as easy as they can for you. The college is really fantastic, it has helped me on the way to get to what I want to achieve within my career goals.

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