The launch of the Level 4 NVQ by City & Guilds comes two weeks after Channel 4's Dispatches programme revealed serious failings in the system.
It is the highest qualification of its kind for managers in children's residential care and is expected to take at least a year to complete.
It will be available in early January 2005.
The launch of the new qualification has been seen as timely because it comes after the programme revealed shocking examples of bad practice in private children's homes (Children Now, 1-7 December).
Jennifer Bernard, consulting director for care, community and health at City & Guilds, said: "We all despair of poor practice in residential care and we believe that anything we can do to give people that extra confidence in their knowledge and learning, and to support the managers who manage those staff, is absolutely the right thing to do. This should change things for the better."
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