Vocational courses in Health and Social care have been developing over several years. The national qualifications framework has been revised and refined to provide students with a continuous and comprehensive progression of courses from entry level to doctoral. This course puts vocational Health and Social Care in the context of other courses and career routes. It will look at some of the courses on offer at different levels, including GCSE Health and Social Care. The course will take an active approach to teaching the new Applied GCE Health and Social Care (Advanced single and double award) compulsory and optional units – and is based mainly on the Edexcel Syllabus. However, some of the material is adaptable to other awards.