Qualifications and funding

• Find a qualification

  Search the Qualification Framework to find the required or recommended qualifications for different job roles.

  • Qualifications and funding

• Qualification and standards updates for managers and employers

  Changes to health and social care and children’s care, play, learning and development qualifications.

  • Qualifications and funding

• Health and social care qualifications and standards events

  Upcoming events for learning providers, employers and managers who want to support staff with their health and social care qualifications.

  • Qualifications and funding

• Social work qualifications

  Information about the social work degree, what you can expect from the first three years of practice and post qualifying training.

  • Qualifications and funding

• Social work degree funding

  Information on the bursaries we provide and other financial support available.

  • Qualifications and funding

• Induction frameworks

  Induction frameworks for health and social care, social care managers and early years and childcare workers and managers.

  • Qualifications and funding

• Guidance for learners, managers and employers on completing qualifications

  Guidance for learners, managers and employers on completing qualifications.

  • Qualifications and funding

• Work placement guide

  Guidance for employers, learning providers and learners on work placements.

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• Competency framework for independent advocates

  A tool designed to upskill advocates who want to move into a different role within the sector​.

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• Competency Framework for the Information, Advice and Assistance (IAA) Workforce

  ​The Competency Framework for the IAA Workforce (the framework) sets out the standards that should be used to inform practice for those involved in providing information and/or advice and/or assistance for care and support.

  • Qualifications and funding

• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

  Information and resources to help you support the professional development of self and others as part of your Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

  • Qualifications and funding

• Apprenticeships

  Find out more about how to become an apprentice, if you are an employer, how to recruit an apprentice and if you are a learning provider, the certification process.

  • Qualifications and funding

• Information and guidance on finding a qualification

  Information and guidance on finding a qualification for different job roles within social care and regulated childcare in Wales, what the criteria for including qualifications are and how it can support professional development.

  • Qualifications and funding

• Guidance for managers of Night residential child care workers

  Guidance for managers of night residential child care workers to support workers studying for the Level 3 Health and Social Care: Practice (Children and Young People) qualification.

  • Qualifications and funding