Children, young people and families manager apprenticeship, level 5 · Register title: Children, young people and families manager (ST0087)
Grow the managers your children's services will be led by
The Growth and Skills Levy covers the training and assessment, and we handle the enrolment and the paperwork. Your apprentice learns to lead a team or service: supervision, legislation, practice standards and the wellbeing of the staff who care for children and families. They might be your deputy, a senior practitioner, or a lead ready for more.
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What they'll be able to do
Three milestones, ending ready for assessment
Lead within children's legislation and safeguarding, and understand the theories that shape good practice.
Supervise and develop staff, manage performance and wellbeing, and work across agencies.
Lead a team or service with confidence, improve practice, and be ready for end point assessment.
Every programme works the same way. They learn it, use it in your organisation, then look back at what they did and why.
Know it
Legislation, leadership theory, and what makes supervision work in children's services.
Show it
Teams supervised, practice improved, and partners worked with well.
Live it
Integrity, resilience, and leadership that looks after staff.
Who you could put forward
Someone already with you, or someone new
Your deputy manager
Rob was one when he started.
A senior practitioner or personal adviser
Louise Payne was one of five senior personal advisers in a leaving care team.
A practice lead who's stopped growing
Lucyna Jankowska felt she was doing the same things repeatedly.
A level 4 practitioner ready to lead
The natural next step from children, young people and families practitioner.
In their words
The people, not the provider
Completing this qualification has given me the strength and confidence to complete my role affectively. I have learned so much particularly around legislation, theories and how to perform as a manager to lead a successful team.
The knowledge and confidence I gained played a big part in helping me secure a new role within the Parenting Team, where I continue to learn and grow.
You're trusting us with someone from your team. Here's how we look after them.
One trainer-coach from start to finish, who knows your sector and gets to know the children, young people and families you support.
A one-to-one review every month, and a three-way review with you at the end of every theme. Nobody is guessing where they are or what's next.
Learning built around rotas and shifts: a blend of on-site visits from their coach and live online sessions, coaching huddles and workshops. No day or block release.
What your organisation gets
Managers ready for registration, grown from your own team
Managers ready for registration
Rob went from deputy to registered manager.
Supervision that supports staff
Leaders who understand why supervision matters to morale and to children.
Leadership grown from within
Your next manager, from your own team.
Training and assessment are funded from the Growth and Skills Levy you already pay, up to the funding band for this standard. If you don't pay the levy, there's nothing to pay for apprentices under 25, and a 5% contribution for those aged 25 and over.
We check eligibility before you commit to anything. We complete the enrolment, the funding agreement, and the records the rules require, in the format auditors expect.
You get one named account manager, from your first conversation to your last review. If something isn't working, you go to them, and we take it seriously.
The honest answers
Questions people actually ask
At least 466 hours of off-the-job training across the programme. We convert that into hours per week around their role and agree it in writing before anyone starts.
The residential care option includes the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare, the qualification the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015 name for registered managers.
Training and assessment are funded from the Growth and Skills Levy, up to £6,000. If you don't pay the levy, there's nothing to pay for apprentices under 25, and a 5% contribution for those aged 25 and over. We'll confirm exactly what applies before you commit.
If they move to a new employer, they can carry on their apprenticeship there. Your funding commitment from the Growth and Skills Levy ends when they leave.
Let's begin
Tell us who you'd like to back.
We'll reply within one working day. You'll know whether this programme fits them, what it costs you, and how quickly they could start. No commitment. And if we're not the right fit, we'll tell you.
Together, let's go