National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership (NPQICL)
The National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership (NPQICL) is the first national programme to address the needs of leaders within multi-agency, early years settings.
The qualification increases your awarness of the practical challenges faced when leading an integrated setting. It gives you the opportunity to collaborate across the community and provide seamless, high-quality services for babies, children and families.
Who can apply?
Practising leaders of children's centres who will be delivering integrated services in a setting during the year they undertake the qualification.
Find out more about the eligibility criteria.
What's involved?
NPQICL incorporates face-to-face learning, online learning and collaborative reflection to develop a deeper understanding of the skills needed to lead and manage a children's centre. Participants will have the opportunity, through mentoring sessions and leadership learning group activities, to relate theories about leadership to their own practice and build on personal experiences to deepen their understanding of children's centre leadership.
Duration
The programme takes 10 months to complete.
Cost
The National College for Teaching and Leadership funds participants' fees for NPQICL. Participants or their centres will need to cover travel, subsistence and supply costs unless they are required to study outside of their government region.
Find out more
- Use our interactive resource to find out more about NPQICL, including insights about the programme from previous participants.
Apply
The application round is now open and will close at noon on 31 May 2013.
