NPTCLibGuides: Children's Care, Learning & Development: Websites and media

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
Record and view TV and Radio from over 2 million programmes and feature films that have been broadcast by BBC, ITV, Ch4, Ch5 and over 70 other channels. Search the archive for programmes relevant to your course, watch online, create your own playlists or create clips to add interest to your presentations.
Access on any device on and off campus

We've created a recommended playlist to get you started, or search BoB for the programmes you want.

Childcare

Policies and guidance documents

Code of Professional Practice for Social Care
The Code is a list of statements that describe the
standards of professional conduct and practice
required of those employed in the social care
profession in Wales.
Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers in Wales
This national Code of Conduct for NHS Wales
will help to ensure service users and the
public receive a consistent, high-quality,
safe and effective service from Healthcare
Support Workers.
A curriculum for Wales – a curriculum for life
This document sets out the plan for taking forward the
recommendations within Successful Futures: Independent Review
of Curriculum and Assessment Arrangements in Wales
Welsh-medium Education Strategy
This document sets out the Welsh Assembly Government’s Strategy
and Implementation Programme for Welsh-medium education
Building a Brighter Future: Early Years and Childcare Plan
This plan is aimed at everyone who leads, commissions and delivers
services for children and families from pregnancy up to age seven
(the end of the Foundation Phase) in Wales.

Useful Websites

We've provided some links to websites that are suitable for your course.

Remember, when using free websites for research, always evaluate the quality of the information you find using criteria such as the CRAAP test. For advice and information about how to evaluate information, visit our Research Skills course on Moodle.

Research Skills Developing good research skills will allow you to find information and use it effectively. Research skills include methods to create a search strategy to gather information and reach conclusions so that you can answer a question. This help page will guide you through the research process.
Equality and Human Rights Commission
The UK independent statutory body with the responsibility to encourage equality and diversity, eliminate unlawful discrimination, and protect and promote the human rights of everyone in Britain.
The children's society
NHS - Baby and toddler play
Social Care Wales - Qualification framework
Childcare and parenting - Welsh Government
Family Lives
National Literacy Trust
NSPCC
Play Wales - Chwarae Cymru
Sense
Children and young people now
Nurseryworld
Health and Care Learning Wales