The last-minute temporary reprieve for popular childcare qualifications, announced by the Children's Workforce Development Council, has been welcomed across the early years sector. But the welcome is tinged with frustration and irritation that despite lobbying by the awarding bodies and colleges, the CWDC only acted after a report from the qualification regulator, OfQual.
From January 1 the new Level 2 Certificate/Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People's Workforce, championed by the CWDC, were to have become the sole qualifications for new learners for the purposes of registration and regulation. However, following the intervention of OfQual, CWDC announced that the date has been postponed for 12 months and qualifications that were to have been superseded have been reprieved until January 2012 (see box).
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