The Education and Training Standards Committee, which devises policies on youth worker qualifications in England, has agreed that from September 2010 anyone entering the profession will need a three-year degree rather than a higher education diploma or foundation degree.
Steve Drowley, team manager (quality standards) at The National Youth Agency, said the change would strengthen the profession's standing.
"It is increasingly difficult to fit all that is needed by youth workers into a two-year diploma programme, so moving to a three-year degree will help address this," he said. "It is also about the status of the profession. If other professions such as social work and teaching require a degree, and we regard youth work as being just as complex and demanding, then it should also be a degree profession."
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