The Children’s Workforce Strategy: Building an Integrated Qualifications Framework

The pamphlet sets out arrangements to develop an integrated qualifications framework for the children's workforce. It has been published alongside the Children's Workforce Strategy response document and is aimed at two key audiences:

• Sector Skills Councils and employers, awarding bodies, regulatory bodies and training providers to clarify our expectations of the lead role they will play in developing the framework.
• Professional bodies, leaders, managers and practitioners in organisations working with children and young people to provide information on these developments and encourage them to get involved with stakeholders.

The Children's Workforce Strategy consultation welcomed proposals to reform qualifications to support both improved career pathways across, and better career opportunities within, the children's workforce. Responses called for an integrated qualifications framework to ensure read-across to related disciplines in other sectors.

The pamphlet sets out the main design features of the framework, identifies the issues to be addressed, sets out the actions required of partners and describes the next steps in the process.

The development of the framework will be carried forward by the partnership of sector skills councils that form the Children's Workforce Network led by the Children's Workforce Development Council.