CHC30113 Certificate III in Early Childhood: Food & Drinks

This document is a completed assessment for the CHC30113 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care, specifically focusing on the unit CHCECE004: Promote and provide healthy food and drinks. The assessment consists of four case studies addressing real-world scenarios encountered in early childhood settings. The student provides detailed responses, referencing relevant policies such as food and nutrition policies, dietary requirement policies, and the National Quality Standard. The solutions cover topics like addressing parental concerns about sugary drinks, strategies for promoting varied food types in children's lunches, accommodating dietary restrictions during events like Easter egg hunts, and responding to parental requests for hot meals. The assignment demonstrates an understanding of promoting healthy eating, planning nutritious meals, and maintaining food safety in childcare environments. The student references external resources and provides practical strategies for educators.

CHC30113 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and
Care
CHCECE004 Promote and provide healthy food
and drinks
Student Name: XXXXXX
Student Number: XXXXXX
Assessment Number: 31834B/01
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Getting started
The assessment activities in this booklet have been designed to allow you to provide
evidence that demonstrates your competence in the unit CHCECE004 Promote and
provide healthy food and drinks.
Your trainer will:
 answer any questions that you might have about the assessment
 assess your competence as required by the unit of competency, by making
judgments about the evidence you have presented in line with the rules of
evidence: validity, authenticity, currency and sufficiency
 provide feedback on the outcomes of the assessment process.
Introduction
You are required to complete one written assessment task, which has three separate
components for CHCECE004 Promote and provide healthy food and drinks.
In completing the final assessments, you will show evidence of your ability to:
 promote healthy eating
 plan food and drinks that are nutritious and appropriate for each child
 maintain food safety while carrying out food-handling activities.
Assessment number Assessment deliverables
31834B/01 Written assessment
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31834B/01 Written assessment
Part A - Case studies
Student instructions Consider each of the below situations then answer the questions or complete the
tasks that follow. To answer questions accurately, you may refer to applicable legislation including
the National Quality Standard and Education and Care Services National
Regulations, along with the Belonging, Being and Becoming – The Early Years
Learning Framework, Early Childhood Australia Code of Ethics, policies and
procedures common to early childhood education and care services, position
descriptions detailing an educator’s duty of care responsibilities, and/or other
sources such as professional readings along with the course textbook and
identified key resources. Ensure you acknowledge and cite your sources accordingly. This is important
whether you use your own words or quote the author’s words. For more information
on referencing and plagiarism, refer to the ‘Academic reference guide’ in the
Student Handbook. When referring to early childhood education and care service policies and
procedures or position descriptions, please submit with your assessment to support
your answer.
Case Study 1
You are working in an early childhood education and care service that asks families to
provide their children’s snacks, meals and drinks for consumption throughout the day.
A parent has begun sending juice in their child’s drink bottle, instead of following the
service’s Food and Nutrition Policy, which states that children should only drink water
when in care at the service. After discussing this with the parent, the parent begins to
send colourless cordial in their child’s drink bottle.
Complete the following:
 Which policies, typically available in an early education and care service, is this
parent breaching? Identify two policies.
 Food and beverage policy , Nutrition policy , dietary requirement policy
 First the parent is breaching the service's food and nutrition policy , dietary
requirements policy and food and beverage policy , in regards to promoting
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children's health , safety and wellbeing . parents are required to supply their
children with water , however this parent continues to send their child with
sugary drinks instead of complying with the centres policy .
Services must work on compliance with the National Quality Standard , the NQS
has seven quality area that each service implement into their service .E.G Quality
Area 2- children's health and safety. Services need to work in promoting health
lifestyles, good nutrition and the wellbeing of all children by developing their own
policies and procedures that clearly follows the regulations of the NQS .
National regulation : Regulation 78-80,168
Regulations 79 and 80 do not apply to food and beverages provided by a parent or
family member for consumption by their child . however services where children
bring their own food and beverages could promote healthy choices through
strategies such as information pamphlets from recognized nutrition authorities
 Identify two information resources that you could direct the parent to in order to
educate them about the dangers of giving their child unhealthy drinks.
 http://www.betterhealth
.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/child_nutrition_juices_and_sweet_drink
s
this website encourage children to drink and enjoy water . sweet drink such as soft
drinks and cordials , fruit drink , vitamin-style water , flavoured mineral water ,
energy and sport drinks may cause health problems for children if consumed in
large amount .
http://www.education .vic.gov.au
this website will demonstrate straight away all the information about sugary drinks .
there efore the parent won't get trouble to read them out . I will get the parent to
read them out , to have a good reading of this website to fully understand regards
giving unhealthy drinks or sugar drinks to kids .
 In your answer, include the full title of each information resource and/or website
including the Web address to clearly identify to the assessor the resources you
would direct the parent to.
 http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au ….. soft drink , juice and sweet drinks –
children
 http://www.education.vic.gov.au ….. school confectionery guidelines
 Briefly outline three possible health implications for this child if they are only
drinking sugary fluids.
 Intake of sweet drinks reduce the quality of child diet , has links to weight gain and
poor oral health , and also exposes them to the habit of drinking sweet drink . the
Australian dietary guidelines do not recommend the consumption of sugar
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sweetened drinks such as soft drinks , cordials , fruit drinks , vitamin-style water
flavoured mineral waters , energy and sport drinks.
 Problem with sweet drinks –sweet drinks can cause a range of problem including :
Excess weight gain , tooth erosion and decay , small appetite , picky eating ,
change in bowel habits .
 Tooth decay : children who have sweet drinks are at risk of tooth decay , for the
babies and toddlers problem start when a bottle is used for comfort when going
to sleep , to suck during the night or to snack on during the day , if the bottle
contains a drink other than water , even milk , the sugar in the fluid sits on the
teeth and gums for some time . this is when decay can start even before any
teeth have appeared .
Case Study 2
You are working in an early childhood education and care service that asks families to
provide their children’s snacks and meals. You have noticed that one of the families
who access the service continually pack their child’s lunchbox with highly processed,
brown coloured, carbohydrate rich foods, such as bread, biscuits, Nutri-Grain
breakfast cereal and rice crackers.
Complete the following:
 Briefly outline three strategies that you could use to make the child’s parents
aware of the need to include a variety of food types in their child’s lunch.
ANSWER
1. The health care facility can support the parents to give balanced diet. This
involves giving tips on meal preparation. What foods to include in children’s
lunch.
2. The health care should encourage parents to pack variety of foods. This
involves educating them on the benefits of balanced meals.
3. Make it a requirement for parents to pack balanced meals for children. This
ensures that parents pack balanced meals.
(Roth, 2010)
 Briefly describe three experiences you could include in the service’s educational
program to promote and role model healthy eating amongst the children.
 Encourage engaging stories and games about healthy eating ,avoid offering
rewards or bribes for eating their food.
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 Educators avoid snacking on unhealthy food in front of the children , instead
they should be role modelling good mealtime behaviour .
 Ensure all staff are familiar with hygiene standards , food safety laws and
nutrition principals for children .
 Discourage parent to allow children to bring unhealthy snacks .
Case Study 3
It is coming up to April and the early childhood education and care service where you
work traditionally holds an Easter egg hunt within the service’s grounds. The children
eagerly look forward to this experience each year, and make Easter egg baskets to
collect their eggs in. This year a parent, in the 3-5s room has requested that their child
not participate in the egg hunt as they do not allow their child to eat chocolate. The
parent also makes comment that they feel this experience contradicts the service’s
practices in relation to promoting healthy eating amongst the children and their
families.
Complete the following:
 How would you accommodate this parent’s request, while at the same time
respecting the wishes of the other families who attend the service? Remember,
it is important not to make any child feel excluded.
 Educator need to respect and take into account the value and lifestyles of
families. Educator need to work in partnership with families and respect their
view and decision . No child at the service should ever feel excluded. I would
work around the parents request and that their child could participate for the fun
of the activity as I would feel he would feel excluded if he was not able to
participate . I would however respect the parents view that their child should not
eat any of the chocolate but he can still be engaged in the activity and take
another alternative that the parents will be happy with for special occasion .
 List four ways you could provide information to families about the inclusion of
‘discretionary’ or ‘sometimes’ food items in the service’s program.
 Provide information brochures , fact sheet on appropriate food , a copy of the
services nutrition policy
 Make parent's day , all the parents invited to the services and prepare small
show to provide this information .
 Put this information in the service website , so all parents can access it .
 We can write it in the children tracking book .
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 Outline how you would lead and facilitate this experience to ensure that food
safety and hygiene standards are maintained throughout the Easter egg hunt.
 Keeping the easter eggs out of the sun and off the ground
 Encouraging children to wash their hands before opening and eating them ,
making sure there aren't insects in the area
 Adding a few eggs in a clear plastic pouch that each child must find rather than
having separate eggs
Case Study 4
The early childhood education and care service where you work provides morning tea,
lunch, and afternoon tea to all children that attend each day. A number of parents have
complained about the fact that the service is not providing a hot meal every day. The
parents are indicating that they would like a hot meal served each day, even during
summer.
Complete the following:
 Describe how you would respond to the parents’ complaints?
 I could serving hot food on some days so that there is some variety
 Send a menu suggestion form home for parents to fill out and ask them what
type of meals they would like to see on the menu
 Write weekly menu and give it to parents to get their views.
Case Study 5
You have just begun working in the 0-2s room at an early childhood education and
care service. One of the other educators in the room is reluctant to allow the children
to feed themselves and still insists on having all of the children sitting in high chairs for
every meal. From your studies and professional readings, you know that children
should be encouraged to develop self-help skills and be given the opportunity to
experience relaxed, enjoyable mealtimes.
Complete the following:
 Which staff members should you approach with your concerns?
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 Since it's just another educator working alongside me , then I need to express
my concern to the room leader ( team leader ) I can also express my concern to
the assistance director .
 What steps would you take to change the culture in the 0-2s room around meal
times without causing conflict amongst the educators?
 -putting the older toddlers on chair and sitting at the tabled while keeping the
younger ones in high chairs
 Offering spoons to children while still helping them to eat
 Getting staff to sit with a few children to assist them with their eating .
 Encourage toddler to help clean their faves and hands after meal times .
 In your answer, state how the Belonging, Being and Becoming – The Early
Years Learning Framework and the National Quality Standard can be used to
facilitate change and guide practice within the service.
 EYLF
Learning outcome 1- children have a strong sense of identity
1.1children feel safe, secure and supported acknowledge and respond sensitively
to children's cues and signals .
1.2 children develop their emerging autonomy , inter-dependence , resilience and
sense of agency .
Display delight , encouragement and enthusiasm for children's attempts .
Support children's efforts, assisting and encouraging as appropriate
 NQS
Quality area 2 – children's health and safety
Element 2.1.1
Each child's health needs are supported
Quality area 5 : relationships with children
Standard 5.1
Respectful and equitable relationships are developed and maintained with each child .
Elements 5.1.1
Interactions with each child are warm and responsive and build trusting relationships .
Element 5.1.3
Each child is supported ti feel secure, confident and included.
 List three resources that you could provide to the other educator to increase
their knowledge of healthy eating for under two and the benefits of allowing
children to feed themselves.
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 http://ncac.acecqa.gov.au/educator-reso … eet_28.pdf
this website gives information on the quality meal time experiences help to ensure
that children's nutritional needs are being met .
 http://www.education .vic.gov.au/Document … to 2yrs.pdf
this is a great website on feeding toddlers .
http://www.naqld.org/category/leaps/
this is also a great site for eating and learning active play and sleep.
 Identify for each of the age groups below, the furniture and utensils which are
required to support children in their attempts to feed themselves independently
during the ages:
o 6-12 months high chair , spoon and bib
o 12-18 months. Chair maybe with a boost seat , own spoon and bowl to
feel themselves .
o 18 months – 2 years. Chair , own plastic cutlery .
Case Study 6
A new educator has started working at your service. During meal times you have
observed her making statements to the children like, ‘You won’t be getting any dessert
unless you eat all of your lunch’, ‘Children who don’t eat all of their food won’t get
presents off Santa Claus’, ‘I’m not giving you a drink until you eat all of your carrots’
and ‘Well if you don’t eat the casserole I won’t give you anything else to eat. You will
just have to go hungry’.
Complete the following:
 Identify the Education and Care Services National Regulation this educator is
breaching by making these statements.
ANSWER
The educator is breaching the part of interactions with children. This part states
that children express themselves in the most positive manner possible. This is
allowing children to build their self-esteem and self- reliance. In addition to that,
the children get encouragement towards good behaviour. The children rights
require observation when handling children (Chisolm, 2007).
 Explain how this staff member is acting unethically and undermining the rights
of the children in their care. Make reference to the National Quality Standard,
Belonging, Being and Becoming – The Early Years Learning Framework, Early
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Childhood Australia Code of Ethics and United Nations Convention on the
Rights of the Child in your answer.
ANSWER
The educator undermines the right of child expression. Children should have
their own opinions and be encouraged carry themselves positively.
Secondly, the educator undermines the right of undertaking experiences with a
free mind. Children should not be intimidated to engage in activities (Christina,
2008).
 Briefly describe three positive strategies that this educator could use to
encourage the children in her care to try new foods.
 Provide choices –the children will be more interested in eating what is in front of
them , when they have selected it themselves ,. Try and let the children pick
from a very limited range of meal options and ask which one they would like
rather than all .
 Get the children involved , encourage the children to help prepare the meal ,
depending on their age we can find simple way to include the children in
preparing the meal such as mixing ingredients and shredding vegetables , the
more they involves in the preparing the more likely they would eat it .
 Small portions , the children may be pit off by a portion that seems very large ,
so offering a small portion first and if they finish they can have a second helping
.
Case Study 7
You are working in an early childhood education and care service that asks families to
provide their children’s meals. A student undertaking studies in early childhood
education and care has recently commenced their first professional work placement at
the service.
Complete the following:
Develop a checklist which identifies the key information and practices you need to
provide to the student during their orientation to ensure that they carry out food-
handling, preparation and storage according to policies and procedures typically
available in an early childhood education and care service, and in accordance with
regulatory requirements.
ANSWER
Checklist
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