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Subject update | Fri Jun 25 13:00:00 UTC 2021

Health and Social Care update - June 2021

An update on everything new within the Health and Social Care sector.

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After careful monitoring and analysis of the following qualification in line with Ofqual conditions of management and withdrawing of qualifications, we are withdrawing the following qualification providing timely notification.

Qualification number Title  Final Registration date  Certification end date 
501/1189/9  Pearson BTEC Level 2 Certificate in Dementia Care  31/12/21  31/12/23

The following qualification will be extended to 31 June 2022:

Qualification number Title 
603/3496/4 Pearson BTEC Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care (England)

Counselling Qualifications

Guidance from the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) for online teaching delivery and remote supervised placements from September 2021.

Changes to requirements:

BACP requirements for membership and core training will allow the option of some online teaching delivery and remote supervised placements. BACP will accept a mix of:

  •  face-to-face and synchronous (live) online taught sessions, with a maximum of 30% of total tutor contact time delivered online

  • face-to-face and remote supervised placement hours, provided the majority are carried out face-to-face

Students or practitioners who want to apply for BACP membership will be asked how their training and placements were delivered.  For full up to date information. see BACP Guidance for online teaching .

The following counselling qualifications will be withdrawn on these date.

The Pearson BTEC Level 5 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling will be replaced with a BTEC Higher National  in Counselling & Applied Psychology, this will be available from September 2022.

Qualification number Title Registration end date Certification end date 
600/0596/8   Pearson BTEC Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills 31/12/21 31/12/23
600/2293/0  Pearson BTEC Level 5 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling 31/12/22 31/12/26
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