Residential child care qualifications audit 2009

Kendrick, Andrew and Davidson, Jennifer and Duncalf, Zachari and Anderson, Maureen (2009) Residential child care qualifications audit 2009. Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care.

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Abstract

In recent years there has been a drive to develop a fully qualified residential child care sector in Scotland. In 2003 the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) announced the baseline qualifications for residential child care staff and set down a target for attaining it. This qualifications framework was subsequently reviewed and expanded in 2004. The Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care (SIRCC), commissioned by the Scottish Executive, has previously undertaken two inquiries into the qualification levels of the residential child care workforce in Scotland. The first Qualifications Audit (Frondigoun, Maclean, Hosie & Kendrick, 2002) was undertaken before the SSSC’s initial qualification framework was known and the second (Hunter, Hosie, Davidson & Kendrick, 2004) was based on it. The previous qualifications audit (Hunter et al., 2004) reported that 18% of residential child care staff were fully qualified in accordance with the SSSC’s qualification criteria (SSSC, 2004). The report forecast that the number of fully qualified staff would rise to 29.1% if all qualifications being undertaken were achieved. The purpose of this current audit is to determine whether levels of qualified staff have risen and to identify qualification trends throughout the residential child care sector in Scotland.

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Kendrick, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1910-6051, Davidson, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8404-9033, Duncalf, Zachari and Anderson, Maureen;
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