Evidence shows that the best experiences for children come from the best qualified staff, including where the manager has a degree level award.
The development of Childhood Practice awards are designed to put Scotland at the forefront of the development of integrated qualifications for early years and child care practitioners. Longer term, all early years and child care managers will be required to gain the new awards of 360 credits at SCQF level 9, for registration with the SSSC.
The SSSC has produced a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding the new childhood practice awards. You can find out more about the Childhood Practice Awards here.
Watch a short film about the Childhood Practice qualification and hear from people who work in early years and with children and young people and the difference the qualification is making for them as workers and for the children and families they work with.
This has information on credit transfer and recognition of prior learning (RPL), contact details of childhood practice course deliverers and answers some FAQs about childhood practice.
Guidance for Mentoring in Childhood Practice
A guidance document and toolkit for use by mentors supporting mentees is now available.
The SSSC has, through consultation, developed the Rules and Requirements for Awards Developed from the Standard for Childhood Practice. These Rules and Requirements set out the criteria for the approval of courses for persons who wish to become manager/lead practitioner in early years and child care service and the arrangements for the monitoring, review and investigation of such courses.
The SSSC has publishedguidelines for programmes leading to the postgraduate qualification as practitioner and as manager/lead practitioner in Childhood Practice in Scotland.
If you have any queries regarding the childhood practice awards, please contact Nina Roberts, Education and Workforce Development Adviser at nina.roberts@sssc.uk.com
