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Playwork qualifications
There has never been a better time to think about a career in playwork. The demand for staff to work with school age children and young people in out of school clubs, holiday playschemes and playgrounds has increased significantly in recent years and will continue to rise in the future. There are many developments taking place within the play workforce, read below to find out the latest.
Working with children and young people is now a serious career option and there are many opportunities to become properly qualified to find out more about the different qualifications available for working with children click here
Playwork Units With Common Content
A new short term steering group has been formed with Awarding Bodies, playwork sector colleagues, representatives from the 4 Nations supported by officers from SkillsActive technical team. The key task of the Playwork Common Units Steering Group is to lead on the development of a set of units with common content for the playwork sector. For more background information click here
To access the latest update of the playwork units with common content click here
Qualifying the Playwork Workforce
The Children’s Plan included a commitment that “….the play strategy will support individuals in communities to take a professional role by providing funding to enable 4000 playworkers to achieve recognised play qualifications, and within that to enable a core of professionally qualified new graduate leaders to emerge.”
In support of this commitment, a range of initiatives is being developed by the Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC), in partnership with SkillsActive. Click here to find out more about these initiatives, including funding that is available for candidates to undertake a full level 3 qualification.
Integrated Qualifications Framework
As a result of the Laming Report into the death of Victoria Climbié, there is Government commitment to ensuring that agencies and individuals who work with children and young people do so in a collaborative and co-operative way. A key action to support this is the development and implementation of an Integrated Qualifications Framework (IQF) on which appropriate qualifications for members of the children’s workforce will be placed.
Click here for more information on the IQF.
Pathways to Playwork
Pathways to Playwork is a FREE on-line interactive tool which provides access to our sector approved qualifications and endorsed playwork training courses provided by our Quality Assured Training Provision for the play workforce. Click here to find out more.
