The Health and Social Care curriculum at BBEC intends to:

  • provide a truly vocational context and experience within lessons, where real life practices are embedded constantly within learning
  • deliver excellent outcomes in terms of academic success, and progression in both the student’s coursework and examinations
  • encourage abstract thinking of how individuals’ lives are affected physically, intellectually, emotionally and socially, encouraging a holistic viewpoint
  • teach students how to measure their own physiological health and understand the fundamental life skill of looking after their own health and well-being
  • encourage students to develop their research skills by reading far and wide into health and social careers and responsibilities
  • promote resilience to give all coursework tasks a go
  • encourage students to aspire to the highest grade boundaries in their coursework by showing ambition
  • embed a clear understanding and empathy for the importance of Health and Social Care services within England
  • promote courtesy through learning and demonstrating the key Care Values which underpin etiquette within Health and Social Care services
  • promote cross curricular learning by delving further into Science, Sport, IT, PHSCE and SMSC
  • become naturally kind and caring individuals, with empathy for other people’s needs, diversities and protected identities
  • develop the skills needed for a career in Health and Social Care and promote the wide range of key worker job roles the course can lead to
  • ensure that equality and diversity is promoted and understanding is second nature create opportunities to see health and social care in action in the Bradford context, as well as on a national scale