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Schedule 1 Qualifications for Youth Workers and Community Centre Wardens

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A youth worker or community centre warden shall be treated as qualified for the purpose of these Regulations:

(a)

if he has satisfactorily completed one of the following courses:

(i)

a three year degree course in youth and community work provided at the University of Ulster, or a four year degree course incorporating youth and community work training provided at Brunel University;

(ii)

a two year full-time diploma or certificate course of initial training for youth workers and/or community centre wardens provided at or sponsored by—

  • Aberdeen College of Education

  • Bradford and Ilkley Community College

  • Bulmershe College of Higher Education

  • Crewe & Alsager College of Higher Education

  • Derbyshire College of Higher Education

  • Dundee College of Education

  • Durham University

  • Goldsmiths College, London

  • Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow

  • Leicester Polytechnic

  • Manchester Polytechnic

  • Moray House College of Education, Edinburgh

  • National Council of Young Men’s Christian Associations, in association with North-East London Polytechnic

  • North-East Wales Institute

  • Sunderland Polytechnic

  • University of Ulster

  • Westhill College of Education, Birmingham;

(iii)

a one year full-time course of postgraduate training for youth workers and/or community centre wardens, provided at or sponsored by—

  • Aberdeen College of Education

  • Dundee College of Education

  • Manchester Polytechnic

  • Swansea University College (the course for the Diploma in Social and Community Education, formerly known as Diploma in Adolescent Development)

  • Westhill College of Education, Birmingham;

(iv)

a part-time course of training for youth workers and/or community centre wardens provided at—

  • Avery Hill College of Education, London

  • University of Ulster

  • National Council of Young Men’s Christian Associations, in association with North-East London polytechnic

  • Thames Polytechnic;

(b)

if he is a qualified teacher;

(c)

if he possesses a qualification which has been approved jointly by the Secretary of State for Education and Science or the Secretary of State for Wales and the Joint Negotiating Committee for Youth Workers and Community Centre Wardens;

or

(d)

if he had been recognised on or before 1st April 1984 by the Joint Negotiating Committee for Youth Workers and Community Centre Wardens as a qualified youth worker or community centre warden.