CYP Now - Analysis: Integrated qualifications framework

The integrated qualifications framework has the potential to enable workers in the children's sector to move seamlessly from one role to another. However, as Asha Goveas reports, effort is needed on all sides in order for the framework to work as planned.

The Government's ambitious vision of children's workers movingseamlessly between different parts of the sector moved one step closerto reality last week.

Clear Progression for the Integrated Qualifications Framework, launchedby children's minister Beverley Hughes, sheds new light on what theall-important integrated qualifications framework will look like. Thereport also sets out key milestones and details of the plan to make ithappen.

It is not before time. Plans for "more coherent pathways" across - andwithin - the workforce were first outlined by the then children'sminister Margaret Hodge more than a year ago (Children Now, 12-19 April2005). But it is a massive task. There are some 4,000 qualifications tosort through and professional bodies and the vocational training sectorneed to be brought on board.

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