First, the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) is piloting its youth professional status. If successful, this would be a new award for any graduate working within young people's services - not just youth workers. To gain the award, candidates would need to demonstrate their understanding of the CWDC's skills development framework.
Confusingly, this professional status is not considered a qualification or a new role, but "a symbol of an individual's management potential". It simply shows workers can adhere to the CWDC framework - already contested as a watered-down set of values.
Then there is the rebranding of qualified youth workers as "youth work professionals" as proposed by the Confederation of Heads of Young People's Services (Chyps). This a new title for any full-time youth worker with a Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC)-recognised qualification. A lot of workers like me would automatically inherit this title because of our training.
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