The VCE VET Community Services program is drawn from a national training package and offers portable qualifications which are recognised throughout Australia. These qualifications provide students with a broad range of skills and knowledge to pursue a career or further training in the community services sector.
Scored assessment is available for the scored Unit 3–4 sequence of the VCE VET Community Services program.
Qualifications
CHC24015 Certificate II in Active Volunteering: offers students the opportunity to acquire entry level skills for volunteer work.
Credit in the VCE (including VCE VM and VPC): recognition of up to two VCE VET units at Units 1 and 2 level.
CHC22015 Certificate II in Community Services: offers students the opportunity to acquire entry level skills for community services work.
Credit in the VCE (including VCE VM and VPC): recognition of up to four VCE VET units at Units 1 and 2 level.
CHC32015 Certificate III in Community Services: offers students the opportunity to learn about the community services sector and explore specific contexts of work. Skills will be developed in communication, working with diversity, workplace health and safety, administration support, and responding to clients.
Credit in the VCE (including VCE VM and VPC): recognition of up to two VCE VET units at Units 1 and 2 level, a scored VCE VET Unit 3–4 sequence and an additional non-scored VCE VET Unit 3–4 sequence.
CHC30121 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care: offers students the opportunity to support the implementation of an approved learning framework and support children's wellbeing, learning and development.
Credit in the VCE (including VCE VM and VPC): recognition of up to two VCE VET units at Units 1 and 2 level, and two VCE VET Unit 3–4 sequences.
Note: The scored Unit 3–4 sequence must be delivered and assessed in a single enrolment year. Students are strongly advised against undertaking the scored Unit 3–4 sequence without first completing Units 1 and 2 because Unit 3–4 sequences are not designed for standalone study.
The scored Unit 3-4 sequence is available in CHC32015 Certificate III in Community Services.
Program material
The VCE VET Community Services program booklet contains information relating to the qualifications approved by the VCAA for delivery to VCE (including VCE VM and VPC) students.
It includes advice on the units of competency making up the program and the credit available for students.
It also provides advice on Structured Workplace Learning, the ATAR contribution and pathways to further learning.
View
2024 VCE VET Community Services program booklet.
The program booklet should be read in conjunction with the
CHC Training Package.
Mandatory Workplace Requirements
The CHC Training Package stipulates Mandatory Workplace Requirements (MWR) to achieve some of the qualifications and some of the units of competency available in the VCE VET Community Services program. Please refer to the information published in the CHC Training Package.
Scored assessment
Scored assessment is available for CHC32015 Certificate III in Community Services.
Students wishing to receive an ATAR contribution for VCE VET Community Services must undertake scored assessment. This consists of three coursework tasks, worth 66% of the overall study score, and an end-of-year examination which is worth 34% of the overall study score.
Scored assessment is based on the scored Unit 3–4 sequence of VCE VET Community Services.
The scored Unit 3–4 sequence of the VCE VET Community Services program must be delivered and assessed in a single enrolment year.
Materials for scored assessment
View
VCE VET Scored Assessment Guide.
View
2025 VCE VET Community Services assessment plan template and sample.
View
VCE VET scoring criteria sheets.
View assessment templates for task types:
Portfolio,
Product,
Work Performance,
Industry Project.
View
Task type overview.
Examination specifications, past examinations and reports
View
VCE VET Community Services examination specifications, past examinations and reports.
ATAR contribution
Students wishing to receive an ATAR contribution for the VCE VET Community Services program Unit 3–4 sequence must undertake scored assessment for the purpose of achieving a study score. This study score can contribute directly to the ATAR, either as one of the student's best four studies (the primary four) or as a fifth or sixth study increment.
Where a student elects not to receive a study score for a scored Unit 3–4 sequence no contribution to the ATAR will be available.
Where an additional non-scored Unit 3–4 sequence is undertaken students may be eligible for a fifth or sixth study increment.
The increment is awarded by the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC).
Further information can be found on the
VTAC website.
Where a scored Unit 3–4 sequence is used as an increment, the increment will be calculated using 10% of the scaled score.
Where an additional non-scored Unit 3–4 sequence is used as an increment, the increment will be calculated using 10% of the fourth study score of the primary four.
VCE VET Community Services State Reviewer
VCE VET state reviewers are appointed for scored VCE VET programs.
Rowena Archer
Braybrook College
email:
Rowena.Archer@education.vic.gov.au
Structured workplace learning recognition
The VCAA provides recognition for Structured Workplace Learning for students undertaking a VCE VET program (VE1) or a school-based apprenticeship or traineeship (SBAT) (VE2).
View
Workplace Learning Record booklets.