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AAQ October Monthly update (HSC, ECD and Medical Science)

October 2025 update for AAQs in Health and Social Care, Early Childhood Development and Medical Science.

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Welcome to the second update about the new AAQs. I hope you are enjoying teaching the new qualification and your students are enjoying them to. 

Just a few updates, with information about the PSABs and training events. 

Important changes to PSABs

Changes to the PSABs

There have been some updates made to all the PSABs for Health and Social Care, Early Childhood Development and Medical Science. Most of the changes were amde to make the PSABs easier to understand and correct any errors. The changes are small and should not affect your teaching. You must ensure you are using the updated PSABs. They were published in September. 

They can all be found on the qualification page.

Health and Social Care AAQ

Early Childhood development AAQ

Medical Science AAQ

You must also make sure you are using the most up to date version of the specification. 

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Training Events

All subjects have training events

All the new AAQs have training events for the new term. There are Getting Started Events and Getting ready for Internal Assessment. 

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