Standard For information Care services Compiled from the register

Youth Worker: version 1.1 now current

A version change is routine, but which version an apprentice sits under is not.

Youth Worker at Level 6 is now at version 1.1. Level 6, 36 months, maximum funding £20,000, reference ST0522, currently at version 1.1.

Recorded change: Version 1.0 retired.

A new version typically revises the knowledge, skills and behaviours, the assessment plan, or both. Apprentices already on programme continue under the version they started on, and the funding rules that apply are those in force on their individual start date.

What to do about it: confirm which version each cohort is recorded against in your MIS, because you may be delivering two versions of the same standard side by side. Check whether the assessment plan moved with the version — where it did, your assessment organisation will need to be working to the revised plan. And read the change against Care services as a whole, since versions often move in batches when a regulator or sector body updates its own requirements.

This page is compiled, not written. Every figure in it comes from this standard’s own record on the Skills England register. The guidance is general to this type of change rather than specific to your provision — check the source before acting on it.
All articles Published 16 July 2025. Always check the source before acting on a compliance deadline.

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