Unit 1: Administration

• Different types of ECCE settings
• Types of management structures and financial implications of each
• Maintaining accurate accounts
• Keeping employment records for tax purposes and making relevant returns
• Employment law: legal rights and entitlements of employees and responsibilities of employers
• Efficient operation of financial and physical resources
• Accessing potential funding
• Planning of special and day-to-day events

Unit 2: Working as a Team: Staff, Parents and Committees

• Drawing up a job description and personal profile requirements for an ECCE worker
• Recruiting, interviewing and inducting new staff
• Preparing an employment contract
• Working as a team
• Working with parents
• Role of the ECCE committee
• Meeting procedures

Unit 3: Policies and Procedures

• Importance of aims and objectives in formulating policies and procedures
• Drawing up policies on a range of ECCE issues
• Implementing policies in partnership with parents
• Complying with statutory and non-statutory requirements