BTEC Level 2 First Public Services

Summary:
Everything students need to make the grade in BTEC Level 2 First Public Services. This lively and comprehensive textbook covers all core units and a flexible selection of popular optional units, making it suitable whether you are studying for the Certificate, Extended Certificate or Diploma. Each chapter covers a unit packed with:

- Activities to help with assignments
- Advice on gathering evidence
- Explanations of the BTEC pass, merit and distinction criteria
- Further reading
- Pointers to additional resources

Written by authors with a wealth of experience in delivering, verifying and writing for BTECs this textbook is packed with knowledge of the Public Services sector and how to get the most of your course.

This textbook is supported by a separately available Dynamic Learning package for tutors.

• Written by authors with a wealth of experience in delivering, verifying and writing for BTEC
• Packed with guidance on assignments, activities, and the Pass, Merit and Distinction grading
• Dynamic Learning Online support for teachers with lesson plans, case studies, assignments and sector information.

About the Author(s):
Marilyn Breeze is an external verifier for BTEC Public Services and is involved in the writing of new BTEC Public Services specifications. She has a huge amount of experience of the Public Services sector and in education. She has worked for the Police, Social Services and Education Departments, then as a lecturer in Further and Higher Education. Marilyn is currently the Public Services Course Co-Ordinator at the University of Derby College, Buxton.

Margaret Cronin has been a BTEC external verifier in Public Services since 2002, and has been involved in writing materials for the new BTEC Public Services specifications. She has a background in the public services, having served as a police officer and, more recently, a teacher and lecturer, delivering and assessing Public Services since 1999. During the ten years spent in Further Education Margaret was Programme Co-ordinator for the Public Services programmes. Margaret has also undertaken inspections on behalf of Estyn (Welsh equivalent of Ofsted). A member of the Institute of Educational Assessors, Margaret has been accepted as a Centre Risk Assessor with BTEC and as a Standards Verifier for the Foundation Learning Tier.

Alan Spafford is involved in the re-writing of the BTEC Public Services qualifications from entry level to level 3. He is also involved in the assessment programme for the BTEC Foundation Learning Tier as a Standards Verifier and is employed as an external verifier for the NQF levels 2 and 3 qualifications for the last four years. He is currently a lecturer at two further education colleges in Nottingham and has taught public service qualifications from level 1 to level 3 since 1995.

Readership:
BTEC First