EPA Standard
Children, Young People and Families Manager
Children, Young People and Families Managers help children, young people and families aspire to do their best and achieve sustainable change. They build teams, manage resources and lead new approaches to working practices that deliver better outcomes and put the child, young person or family at the centre of practice.
Children, Young People and Families Managers may work in a range of settings in local authorities, within health organisations, educational and early years settings or children’s centres, as well as a wide range of private voluntary and community organisations.
Option 1: Children’s Residential Care Manager
Mandatory qualification: Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare
Option 2: Children, Young People and Families Manager in the Community
Mandatory qualification: Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care
Level 5 
£6,000 
24-30 months
Why NCFE?
We’re an approved End-Point Assessment Organisation (EPAO) specialising in EPA delivery across health, education, early years, digital, social care, and business apprenticeship standards. We offer flexible and reliable EPA solutions supported by sector expertise, guidance documents and proactive service and support.
Entry: Apprentices must undertake the Disclosure and Barring Service process and provide the result.
End-point assessment
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The EPA for Children, Young People and Families Manager contains two methods of assessment:
Situational Judgement Test (50% weighting)
Apprentices are presented with nine work-based scenarios within a children’s health and social care context. The Situational Judgement Test will be a written test, sat under controlled conditions and will last for 120 minutes. It’ll highlight the apprentice’s competence in the application of the knowledge criteria outlined in the standard.
Grading: the Independent End-Point Assessor (IEPA) grades the Situational Judgement Test as a Fail or Pass only.
Competence Interview informed by a Portfolio (50% weighting)
The Competence Interview is a structured discussion of 55-65 minutes between the apprentice and the IEPA, focusing on the work covered in the Portfolio. There will be probing questions and discussion about the professional practice undertaken within the course of the apprentice’s work, based on the application of core skills, knowledge and behaviours.
The Portfolio will not be assessed, but it will be used to inform the questioning for the competence interview.
Grading: the IEPA grades the Competence Interview as a Fail, Pass or Distinction.
Children, Young People and Families Manager
Delivering from 29 June 2018
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