Nursery World - CWDC extends deadline for existing early years and childcare qualifications

Some early years and childcare qualifications will continue to be offered until January 2012, after the CWDC confirmed that it is extending the deadline for current qualifications by a year.

The new Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People's Workforce was expected to replace all existing sector-related qualifications from January.

However, following recommendations by Ofqual, the CWDC has said that some qualifications on the National Qualification Framework will now be extended to January 2012.

Meetings will take place shortly between CWDC representatives and awarding bodies to discuss the issue.

In a letter to awarding bodies, dated 8 December, Pauline Jones, assistant director at the CWDC, (pictured), said that the CWDC remained ‘firmly committed to full implementation of the Level 2 Certificate and the Level 3 Diploma, which remain at the heart of our qualification strategy’.

But she said that CWDC would provide letters to awarding bodies via Skills for Care and Development to support applications for an extension for certain qualifications to January 2012, subject to the following criteria:

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