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This UK Qualification and Learning Strategy acknowledges what has already been put in place and achieved through having clear frameworks of qualifications, practice standards and employer and education partnerships; and identifies the current learning and qualification issues for the sector and next stages for development. This is essential to ensure that social care has a sustainable, appropriately skilled and qualified workforce able to respond to changes in the service provision for the future.

This Strategy draws on the work and priorities for action in each of the four countries. Each Alliance partner is also producing country specific Sector Learning/Qualification Strategies (SLS/SQS) which will provide documents specific to the policy and partner context in the country of operation. Each partner will be working to country specific skills and learning strategies introduced by their governments and also to their own sector specific strategies and policies developed with government.

The qualification requirements for the sector are set by governments to promote high standards in the quality of provision and improve public protection. In all instances Skills for Care and Development’s priority is to support employers to ensure the workforce meets the wide-ranging needs of those who use social care, children, early years and young people’s services. It is fundamental for the social care, children, early years and young people’s sector to have appropriate qualifications, knowledge and competencies to ensure that those individuals and families who use our services are provided with a high quality and appropriate service.

This UK strategy informed by our Sector Skills Agreement (SSA) provides an overview of our collective priorities across the UK for the development of qualifications and learning in the future, and clearly outlines the development and design principles the sector will require.

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