What is the European Care Licence (ECL)?
The ECL is being developed as a basic entry certificate in the care sector that we hope will become recognised and accepted across Europe. It is a pilot project running until September 2008 funded through the Leonardo Da Vinci funding stream of the European Commission.
The ECL will provide employers eith evidence that the holder ofthe licence understands the basic knowledge of working safely in the care sector. It will cover the knowledge for workers starting out in the care sector and could be delivered through work-based training, a single short course or as part of a larger and/or longer course.
Why is the ECL needed?
In many European Countries there are shortages of care staff. This is leading to an icrease of foreign workers in the sector. There are also a significant number of unqualified workkers who are currently working across Europe but, contgrary to many other proressions, there is no common European understanding about the entry level needs of workers. The ECL project is an opportunity to benchmark basic knowledge outcomes for the care sector the benefit for those who use care services.
The ECL aims to ...
- address gaps in the fast growing care sector and promote workers' mobility across Europe;
- establish a comparable base for entry level care staff across Europe and
- provide an accessible and transferable certificate for workers and employers.
Our target groups
There are a number of reasons you may wish to be involved in the development of this project. If you are ...
- a college, school or other training provider and you are interested in making your social care courses ECL compliant;
- an employer who would like to understand how you could use the ECL when recruiting new staff;
- a person responsible for training staff in an organisation who would like to ensure that what they cover is compliant with the essential outcomes agreed in the ECL;
- a regulator or inspector who will need to know more about the certificate;
- a person who would like to get an ECL certificate in order to use it to find work inthe care sector in their own or in another country;
... then the ECL can help you.
The ECL Partners
The partnership of the project is composed of organisations from Austria, Germany, Romania, Portugal, Belgium and the United Kingdom. You can follow the progress on the ECL website and subscribe to our newsletter.
Final Conference
The project outcomes will be presented in an European Conference in Vienna in September 2008. If you would like to attend this conference please contact our Austrian partner DIVOS.
Project Manager
Sarah McCarty and Daniel Mundet
Skills for Care and Development
4th Floor, Albion Court, 5 Albion Place, Leeds LS1 6JL
+44 (0)113 241 1250 Email
Partners in Great Britain
James Churchill and Janis Blackburn
ARC
Marsden Street, Chesterfield, Derbyshire S40 1JY
+44 (0)1246 555043 Email
David Ellis
SCIE
Goldings House, 2 Hay's Lane, London SE1 2HB
+44 (0)20 7089 6840 Email
March 2007
Initial survey questionnaire to help guide the partnership to a basic understanding of what induction is in our various countries.
Click here to download first section of questionnaire.
Click here to download second section of questionnaire.
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