Health and Social Care

Health & Social Care is one of the vocational subjects offered at Allerton Grange School.

The subject can be studied as a BTEC First Diploma (equivalent to 4 GCSEs), as a two-year course in years 10 and 11 and also as a one-year course in the sixth form.

It is also a GCE option and can be taken as a single or double A-level in the sixth form.

At all levels students learn about:

• the influences of society and of personal choices on health;
• the organisation of health, social care and early years services
• the skills needed to work in those services
• the rights of service users

Links

More information about the courses can be found at the following exam board websites

BTEC First Diploma
OCR A level

Curriculum leader: Mr. M. Stirland