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Since enrolling as a student of the new NVQ in Children's Care Learning and Development, Carmen Robinson has completed her first unit on health and safety in the environment. Here she describes the experience of her first assessment and how she is learning to develop her portfolio and create a chart that represents children's development from 0-16. On 1 February I had my very first assessment on maintaining a healthy, safe and secure environment for children. The main observations were on a safe environment for the children in my nursery class, using correct procedures that are required by law. This involved looking at the indoor and outdoor environment that I am responsible for, and checking for hazards that could potentially cause children harm.

On 1 February I had my very first assessment on maintaining a healthy, safe and secure environment for children. The main observations were on a safe environment for the children in my nursery class, using correct procedures that are required by law. This involved looking at the indoor and outdoor environment that I am responsible for, and checking for hazards that could potentially cause children harm.

The assessor looked at the fire procedures around the building and at the school's policies. Another thing which was quite new to me was the risk assessment. She needed to see records of risks - for example, what could happen on an outing with the children, looking at how all risks could ultimately be eliminated.

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