Nursery World - Move on up (1)

Our comprehensive guide to recognised qualifications at all levels will help you plan your career from your first steps in working with children to management and degree courses that will equip you for leadership Opportunities to move up - or sideways or diagonally for that matter - are looking better than ever before. The new qualifications framework is designed to be more coherent, support a more integrated way of working and create more flexible career pathways.

Opportunities to move up - or sideways or diagonally for that matter - are looking better than ever before. The new qualifications framework is designed to be more coherent, support a more integrated way of working and create more flexible career pathways.

In line with this the Children's Workforce Strategy consultation outlines that qualifications should be built on transferable units of core and specialist skills and knowledge, with common approaches to the accreditation of previous experience and learning.

The working model represented by the table below supports the idea that there will be more scope for a read-across between qualifications, experience and careers in different sectors of the children's workforce.

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