Greater Manchester Early Years Workforce Competency Framework
Greater Manchester has a priority to support a multi-agency, integrated early years workforce to support the ambition of improving outcomes for children and families from conception to age 5. The Early Years Workforce Competency Framework (EYWCF) will help us achieve this, and is a significant investment of an innovative tool into this key sector.
Overview
The GM EYWCF identifies the skills, knowledge and abilities that everyone who works with early years children and families is expected to have. It offers a single framework to support integrated working, training and professional development across a multi-agency early years workforce.
It is organised into three tiers: essential competencies; early years practice; leadership qualities and expectations; and enables practitioners at all levels of qualifications and experience to carry out a self-evaluation to help identify strengths and areas for further professional development.
The framework is available as a PDF document (below) and as a licensed digital tool which is currently in an early adopter phase. It can be used to provide leaders with an evidence base of workforce need at a team, local, organisational or GM level to inform and evaluate workforce training and development priorities.
This short animation explain more about the framework and the benefits it will bring to the early years workforce across Greater Manchester.
Greater Manchester Early Years Workforce Competency Framework Overview (PDF, 325KB)
Manchester College Aligns T-Levels to the Competency Framework (PDF, 268KB)