3172 - Qualification Documentation (Standards and Assessment Requirements [SARs] and Optional and Additional Units)

This page contains all the qualifciation related documetation a centre and learner requires in order to complete the 3172 NVQs in Health and Social Care.

Standards and assessmnet requirements

This document provides details that centres and candidates will need in order to
assess, verify and collect evidence for this N/SVQ qualification and includes:

• the requirements for occupational competence for all those involved in the
  assessment process
• the assessment methods and requirements
• the national occupational standards and unit evidence requirements
• progression routes.

Information of particular importance to candidates is marked in italics on
the contents list.

Optional and additional Units

This documents contains all optional and additional unit performance criteria and eveidence requirements. We have recently updated these docuemnts to clearly distinguish between optional and additional units.

Other useful documentation

Candidate, centre guides, and recording forms

These two documents are both designed to be used with the City & Guilds N/SVQ Guides which are made up of:

• A centre guide – containing information specifically for centres
• A candidate guide – containing information specifically for candidates
• Recording forms – containing forms that centres and candidates should use for
  recording assessments and evidence.

Find the latest versions of the guides and recording forms, within the Centre Support section, here.

There are also other City & Guilds documents which contain the information
regarding the assessment of N/SVQs:

• Providing City & Guilds Qualifications – a guide to centre and scheme approval
• Ensuring Quality – containing updates on assessment and policy issues
• City & Guilds centre toolkit – a CD-ROM containing further information on
  assessment issues and linking to the City & Guilds website for the latest information
• Consolidated Guidance Updates for City & Guilds Community & Society centres.

Welsh Multi-lingual documentation

To improve the service for our Welsh language learners and centres we have created a web section to house all supporting doccumentation for Community & Society subjects including 3172 Health & Social Care NVQs.

Find all the Welsh language documents here, including N/SVQ Centre and Candidate Guides and Recording forms.Generic NVQ and SVQ