AAQ Early Childhood Development Unit 2 Initial Assessment Bundle Content Areas A–D with Answers
Find out what your students already know—and where teaching needs to begin—with this complete set of four initial assessments for AAQ Early Childhood Development Unit 2: Keeping Children Safe.
Use each assessment before starting its content area to identify prior knowledge, gaps and misconceptions. Confidence checks help distinguish secure understanding from correct guesses and confidently held errors.
The pack includes four separate assessments:
A — Legal responsibilities and health and safety
Explores duty of care, children’s rights, the purposes of legislation, policies and procedures, and safe information handling.
B — Hazards, risks and infection control
Explores hazard recognition, risk management, infection prevention, hand hygiene, immunisation, accident records and reporting.
C — The EYFS and safeguarding
Explores the EYFS, staff suitability and support, the key person role, inclusion, medicine arrangements, behaviour observations and confidentiality.
D — Recognising and responding to child abuse
Explores forms and indicators of abuse, responding to concerns, safe placement arrangements, online safety, recording and reporting, and contributions from safeguarding agencies.
Included across the bundle:
• Four editable Word documents, totalling 24 pages
• Three printable student pages per assessment
• Nine numbered questions and 20 diagnostic marks per assessment
• Multiple-choice, matching and short-answer questions
• Four original nursery case studies with application and reasoning tasks
• Student confidence checks and reflection prompts
• Teacher answers with suggested marking guidance
• Diagnostic record sheets and content sampling maps
• Common misconceptions and guidance for planning follow-up teaching
Each assessment takes approximately 25–30 minutes and can be used independently. Students can select or write “unsure”, making the tasks suitable before formal teaching.
The separate files allow you to assess starting points throughout the unit rather than completing one lengthy assessment at the beginning. They can also be revisited after teaching to support discussion of progress.
No additional lesson purchase is required.
This bundle provides an initial assessment for every Unit 2 content area, A–D. Each assessment samples selected knowledge and skills; the bundle is not an exhaustive test of every specification point or a full mock examination.
All questions and scenarios are original. An independent teaching resource, not endorsed by Pearson. Suggested marks are for diagnostic classroom use and are not an official Pearson mark scheme.










