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Accreditation
Accreditation assures that a training programme has met quality standards set by the profession. Graduation from an accredited programme signifies adequate preparation for entry into a profession.
APEL (Accreditation of Prior Experience and Learning)
A system for accrediting a learner's existing work or life experience and learning, so that it can contribute towards a qualification or help towards gaining entry to a course.
Active Passport
An on-line verified record of qualifications, training, employment and volunteering managed by SkillsActive, the Sector Skills Council.
Assessor
A person who checks candidates' evidence to see if they meet standards and gain a qualification, this may also include observing the candidate in the workplace.
Awarding body
An approved organisation that develops and regulates qualifications.
CACHE (Council for Awards in Children's Care and Education)
An awarding body for qualifications, including playwork.
Career pathways
A workforce development strategy used to support workers' transition from education into and through the workforce.
Children and Young People's workforce
Everyone who works with children, young people and their families - playwork is one of many professions that make up the children's workforce.
Children and Young People's Workforce Development Network
Sector Skills Councils and other partners representing those working with children and young people across Wales
C & G (City and Guilds)
An awarding body for qualifications, including playwork.
City and Guilds 7302
A training course and qualification for trainers
Coherent route
A training plan that is logically consistent, with creditable progression.
Common Core of Skills and Knowledge in Wales
A document aiming to reflect a set of common values that promote equality, respect diversity and challenge stereotypes, helping to provide more effective and integrated services.
Common Unit
A qualification unit shared by awarding bodies and/or sectors.
Competence (see also Organisational Competence)
The ability to do something well or to a required standard. Skills that people possess that allow them to complete tasks. National Occupational Standards use competencies to demonstrate a level of understanding that must be reached.
Continuing Professional Development
How individuals improve their performance in practice by undertaking learning in a broad range of activities that maintain, develop, and enhance their skills and knowledge.
Credit
Recognition of skills for all learners from the age of 14 years - offering consistency in the recognition of achievement for learners of all ages, whether they are learning in the workplace, community, at school, college or university.
Credit and Qualifications Framework for Wales (CQFW)
This framework covers all post-16 and higher education in Wales and is being established by the Welsh Assembly Government and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales.
CWLWM (Childcare Wales Learning and Working Mutually)
A partnership that was partly funded by the European Social Fund to work on developing a dynamic, responsive and sustainable childcare sector in Wales.
DCELLS
Welsh Assembly Government Department for Children Education Lifelong Learning and Skills.
Educator
Someone who teaches within a school, college or university.
Education and Training Standards Committee (ETS) Wales
A subcommittee of the Welsh Assembly Government that makes recommendations to the Education Minister about the professional endorsement, quality assurance and accreditation of youth work, community development and playwork education and training programmes at all levels.
Endorsement
Official approval.
EV (External Verifier)
The person who is employed by a qualification assessment centre to make sure that everyone at the centre is working to the standards they expect.
Framework
A structure or a set of ideas, principles, agreements or rules that provides the basis or the outline for a model.
Foundation degree
A degree level qualification designed with employers, that combines academic study with workplace learning to equip people with the relevant knowledge, understanding and skills to improve performance and productivity.
HEFCW (Higher Education Funding Council for Wales)
HEFCW promotes internationally excellent higher education in Wales.
Higher Education
Education provided by universities, vocational universities, community colleges that award academic degrees or professional certifications.
IV (Internal Verifier)
Someone employed by the qualification assessment centre to make sure that everyone at the centre is working to the standards expected by the awarding body.
JNC (Joint Negotiating Committee)
A committee concerned with pay and conditions of service for playwork staff and therefore the standards of training leading to professional recognition.
Level 2, 3, 4
Please go to our Qualifications Page
Lifelong learning
The concept that learning continues throughout life and beyond the education system.
Mentor
A person who individually supports a candidate to gain a qualification.
National Database for Accredited Qualifications (NDAQ)
Contains details of qualifications that are accredited by the regulators of external qualifications in England (Ofqual), Wales (DCELLS) and Northern Ireland (CCEA).
National Minimum Standards (NMS)
A set of established quality minimum standards for determining whether providers are providing adequate care for children under the age of eight and are otherwise complying with the relevant requirements.
National Occupational Standards (NOS)
Measurable performance outcomes to which an individual is expected to work in a given occupation.Developed by employers across the UK, NOS set out the skills, knowledge and understanding required to perform competently in the workplace.
NVQ (National Vocational Qualification)
A qualification which rewards competence in a specified type of employment.
Learner
Person who is undertaking training / learning.
Occupational Assessor
An assessor who is competent at a particular job.
Organisational Competence
The culture and conditions in the workplace that enable playworkers to be the best they can be. Organisation working to the expected standard.
P3 (see Playwork: Principles into Practice below)
PETC Wales (Playwork Education and Training Council Wales)
A forum for the playwork sector that examines issues of strategic importance to all aspects of playwork education, training and qualifications in Wales. This forum makes recommendations to the PETC.UK.
Playwork Principles
A set of principles (an ethos) that informs playwork practice and that is included as a basis for all quality playwork training.
Playwork: Principles into Practice (P3)
A level 2 training course and qualification developed by Play Wales through the CWLWM project - centred on the Playwork Principles and meeting children's play needs. These qualifications are awarded by the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA)
Playwork Sector
Playworkers, playwork trainers, playwork students, playworker employers, organisations represent playwork as part of their remit.
Profession
An occupation that requires extensive education or specialised training.
Portfolio workers
People who hold more than one post at a time within the children's workforce.
Qualification
The meeting of a requirement, professional certification.
Qualification and Credit Framework (QCF)
The framework is a new way of recognising skills and qualifications. It does this by awarding credit for qualifications and units (small steps of learning). It enables people to gain qualifications at their own pace along flexible routes.
Recruitment
Advertising, interviewing, selecting and filling posts.
Retention
Eencouraging staff to stay in post or within the organisation.
Sector Skills Agreement
An agreement between UK governments and Sector Skills Councils designed to ensure that the skills employers and learners need in order to succeed are the ones the education and learning system provides.
Sector Skills Council (SSC)
An organisation representing employers that takes a lead on education, training and skills for employees.
SkillsActive (SkillsActive Cymru)
The Sector Skills Council for Active Leisure and Learning (in Wales).
Trainer
A professional person who delivers learning.
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Vocation
A job or chosen career.
Vocational qualifications
Vocationally related qualifications (VRQs) offer a practical learning programme that relates directly to a specific job role or industry.
Workforce Development
A local, national or international policy or programme related to learning for work i.e. vocational training, adult training and retraining, and related employment initiatives. Education and training for paid and unpaid staff developing skills in the workplace to ensure that all staff are competent to complete their work.
Youthwork
Youth workers promote the personal, educational and social development of young people aged between 11 and 19 and may also work with young people with learning difficulties up to the age of 25.