European Care Certificate
The European Care Certificate (ECC) is a basic certificate for care- related social care . It is awarded after successfully passing an examination that is comparable across Europe .
History of the ECC
The ECC was developed in 2006 as part of a project funded by the Lifelong Learning Program . Meanwhile, 13 European countries are involved in the further development and dissemination of the ECC in a follow-up project.
Participating countries
The ECC is currently offered in the following EU countries:
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- Italy
- Austria
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovenia
- Czech Republic
- Hungary
- Cyprus
The participation of Poland and Latvia is currently being prepared.
Contents of the exam
The BESCLO (Basic European Social Care Learning Outcomes) covers 8 areas in social care. These are:
- The basic values in social care
- The quality of life promote the clients
- Dealing with Risk
- Understand your own role as a supervisor
- Safety at work
- Communicate positively and successfully
- Recognize and respond to abuse and neglect
- Themselves as employees develop
Results
- ECC has been integrated into existing training courses by various specialist schools for curative education care .
- Vocational training centers for young people with learning disabilities in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg have successfully integrated ECC into their care-related services.
- The European Social Fund ( ESF ) is currently promoting a further training measure for employees without training in elderly and disabled assistance, which concludes with the ECC.
- A large German textbook publisher is currently developing a textbook for the care-related area that includes the contents of the BESCLO and prepares them for the ECC exam.