Professional Validation
Overview
The NYA ensures the quality and development of professional youth work training in England. We achieve this through validation and annual monitoring of professional qualifications. The work is progressed and overseen by the NYA Education and Training Standards Committee (ETS) which makes recommendations on courses recognised to the Joint Negotiating Committee for Youth and Community Workers.
Professional Validation of Higher Education Programmes
The National Youth Agency has published Requirements to describe the process through which Higher Education Institutions can seek formal professional validation of their programmes of education and training in youth work. Such programmes would then confer professionally qualified status for youth workers in England. The requirements, effective from September 2010, are within the document below, which also contains guidance on the process for professional validation.
- Professional Validation: Guidance and Requirements
- Fees for professional validation and modifications
- Template for storyboard (word doc to allow expansion of boxes for text)
- Essential evidence checklist
Key Documents for programme
- QAA Benchmark statements for Youth Work
- National Occupation Standards for Youth Work
- DfES Common Core of Skills Knowledge for the Children and Young People's Workforce
- JNC framework (JESC 133)
Annual Monitoring
Annual monitoring report 2009-10 now published
The National Youth Agency has published its annual monitoring report on validated training programmes for youth workers for 2009-10. The report is prepared as part of the Agency’s process for ensuring good practice within JNC professionally qualifying validated higher education programmes for youth and community work. As well as ensuring students receive a good standard of learning the process enables a picture of the developing workforce to be formed and highlights shifts and changes in trends. Read the report in full >>
Annual Monitoring 2010-11
NYA professional validation of a youth programme runs for up to 5 years, and is conditional on the compliance of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) with an annual process of monitoring.
Professional programmes have been sent their unique URL address to complete their submissions. Below are the supporting guidance documents. Any quries please e-mail amandaf@nya.org.uk
Additional proforma for DipHE/Foundation/BA
Professional Validation in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland
The NYA professionally validates professional training programmes in England.
The professional validation of courses in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, is undertaken by the Youth Council for Northern Ireland.
The JNC recognition of courses in Wales is co-ordinated by the ETS Wales Advisory Committee at the Welsh Assembly Government. For further information contact Liz Rose, Youth Work Strategy Branch, Welsh Assembly Government. 01443 663814. Email: ywsmailbox@wales.gsi.gov.uk.
The qualifications obtained by graduates of professionally validated programmes in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Wales are all recognised by the JNC, and entitle the graduates to work in England. In Scotland, the minimum qualification for professionally qualified status is a degree. Programmes of study leading to professional status are validated by CLD Standards Council for Scotland. Traditionally these Scottish qualifications have entitled the graduate to professionally qualified status at the discretion of the individual employer.
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