Your Child Care Plan
The capstone project for Infant & Child Care: The First Five Years — a free Civic & Life Skills course. Pass it and you earn a certificate anyone can verify.
- Free
- 7 steps
- Pass mark 70%
- Human-reviewed
- Beginner
The project unlocks once you complete the lessons. The workbook is free to download now so you can see exactly what is expected.
What you will submit
One document (Google Doc with view access, or an uploaded Word or PDF file) with a headed section for each of the six parts. No identifying details or photos of real children.
What to do, step by step
- Make a care plan for a child you care for, or for a fictional child at an age you choose between six months and five years. Do not include the child's full name, photo, address or any private medical details. This is education, not medical advice: where a medical decision is involved, write what you would ask the health worker.
- Part 1. A week of meals: a seven-day meal plan for your chosen age using affordable Nigerian foods, showing how each day includes an iron-rich food and a protein, how food is prepared safely, and which foods you avoid at this age because of choking risk.
- Part 2. Milestone and health tracker: a table of the milestones expected around your chosen age with space to record what you see, the next health visits or vaccines according to the child health card (write 'follow the card' rather than inventing dates), and the questions you would take to the health worker.
- Part 3. Go-now card: a one-page card for the wall listing the danger signs that mean the child must be taken to a health facility immediately, the nearest facility and how to get there, and what not to do at home.
- Part 4. Home safety walk-through: a room-by-room check of a real or fictional home (kitchen, bathroom, sleeping area, compound, road outside) listing at least ten hazards and the fix for each.
- Part 5. A week of play and learning: seven days of play, talk and reading ideas for your chosen age using free or homemade materials, including one in a Nigerian language.
- Part 6. Safeguarding checklist: a checklist for anyone who looks after the child (nanny, relative, driver, crèche) covering vetting, rules, what the child is taught about body safety, and what to do and who to tell if you suspect harm.
Files to work with
Project workbook (fill in, then submit)The whole brief, an evidence checklist, the grading rubric as a self-check and the link-sharing steps in one file. Opens in Word, Google Docs or WPS.Word · 6 KBHow it is graded
| Criterion | Weight |
|---|---|
| The meal plan suits the chosen age, includes iron and protein daily, is safe and uses affordable Nigerian foods | 20% |
| The milestone and health tracker uses realistic ranges, defers to the child health card and asks good questions | 14% |
| The go-now card lists the correct danger signs and the right action, with no home treatment of serious illness | 22% |
| The home safety walk-through finds real hazards with practical fixes | 16% |
| The play and learning week is age-appropriate, varied and uses a home language | 12% |
| The safeguarding checklist is thorough and says clearly what to do if harm is suspected | 16% |
You need 70% overall to pass. A human examiner also reviews this safety-critical project before any certificate is issued. A failed submission comes back with feedback and can be revised and resubmitted.
Before you submit: make your link public
If your work lives in Google Drive or Google Docs, open Share → General access and change “Restricted” to “Anyone with the link” (Viewer). Then paste the link into a private browser window: if it opens without sign-in, you are ready. A private link cannot be graded — it is the single most common reason a good project fails.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to finish Infant & Child Care: The First Five Years before submitting the project?
Yes. The submission screen opens once every lesson in Infant & Child Care: The First Five Years is marked complete. The lessons are where the methods, the Nigerian context and the worked examples the project depends on are taught.
How is the project graded?
An examiner scores each rubric criterion from 0 to 100 and weights them as shown on this page; you need 70% overall to pass. Because this is a safety-critical trade, a human examiner also reviews every submission before a certificate is issued.
Can I resubmit if I fail?
Yes. A failed project comes back with feedback; revise the weak parts and resubmit. A passed project is final — the certificate is issued and cannot be re-rolled.
What do I actually submit?
A write-up of what you did (under 5,000 characters) plus a public link to your work — a Google Drive folder, Google Doc, spreadsheet, GitHub repository or video. The link must open without sign-in; a private link cannot be graded. The free project workbook on this page walks you through all 7 steps.
Is the certificate real?
Yes. Passing this project issues a certificate with a unique verification code. Anyone — an employer, a client, a school — can open the verification page and see that the certificate is genuine and which project earned it.
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