Revised occupational standards for youth workers will remove the distinction between skills that should be held by practitioners at different levels when they are published early next year. The old standards specified which skills were appropriate for workers at level two and level three, but the updated version removes these criteria. Sector skills council Lifelong Learning UK, which produced the revised standards, hopes the changes will make the standards relevant to a wider range of youth work organisations. Maureen O'Mara, standards and qualification officer at Lifelong Learning UK, said: "Occupational standards have hundreds of uses, only one of which is qualifications. The new...