Improvement standards

Part of Children and Social Work Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:15 pm on 10 January 2017.

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Photo of Steve McCabe Steve McCabe Labour, Birmingham, Selly Oak 2:15, 10 January 2017

As I have said before, the Minister is extremely generous. I wanted to ask him about people who have acquired higher-level awards and qualifications as part of previous accreditation exercises. He will be familiar with the old CCETSW post-qualification award in children services. I think I am right in saying that the NSPCC ran a similar award at one stage. There are therefore practitioners who have a previous higher-level qualification award. Is it the Minister’s intention that their awards will be accredited or in some way fitted into the new framework or will those people now be expected to acquire an additional higher-level qualification?