Children, young people and families practitioner apprenticeship, level 4, residential pathway · Register title: Children, young people and families practitioner (ST0088)
Grow residential practitioners who understand the children in their care
The Growth and Skills Levy covers the training and assessment, and we handle the enrolment and the paperwork. Your apprentice applies attachment, trauma-informed practice and safeguarding to their keywork and care planning, with the children they already look after. They might be a residential support worker, a senior, or an experienced worker returning to children's services.
NCFE CACHE centre
What they'll be able to do
Three milestones, ending ready for assessment
Safeguard children and young people, and understand attachment, trauma and child development.
Build therapeutic relationships, plan care with the child at the centre, and work with families and other agencies.
Advocate for young people, reflect through supervision, 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
Attachment, trauma-informed practice, safeguarding, and child development.
Show it
Keywork and care planning that put theory into practice with real young people.
Live it
Compassion, advocacy, and professional boundaries.
Who you could put forward
Someone already with you, or someone new
A residential support worker
Friday was one when he started.
A senior ready for more responsibility
Someone you see moving into deputy roles.
An experienced worker returning to children's services
Kelly Jonas came back after years in adult social care and chose level 4 first.
Someone new to the sector with a calling for it
Angum Ndamukong Nourrata had little background in residential care.
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
Care that understands behaviour, and your next seniors
Care that understands behaviour
Practitioners who see the reasons behind it and respond therapeutically.
Visibility of every staff member
Regular reviews you're part of, so you know where each person is.
Your next seniors and deputies
A route into management without losing people to other homes.
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.
Where it leads
The next step, when they're ready
Children, young people and families manager, level 5 ›For practitioners moving into deputy and registered manager roles.
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 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare, the qualification named in the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015.
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.
From 1 October 2026, you may receive up to £2,000 for an apprentice aged 16 to 24, an extra £1,000 if they're 16 to 18, and an extra £3,000 if they've received Universal Credit for more than six months. We'll check what applies to you 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