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Occupational standards due

Careers Youth Work
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 standards will have a much greater usage, both in the voluntary and statutory sector."

Lifelong Learning UK has recently submitted the standards to the UK Coordinating Group - an independent body that oversees the development of occupational standards. It is expected to take the group about 10 weeks to approve them.

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