The Education Workforce Council (EWC) is encouraging school and Further Education (FE) registrants to take up its unique opportunity to access the World Education Summit (WES). Although held live between 21-24 March 2022, access to the event and its resources remains open to registrants for up to one year via Summit Central.

WES connects educators across the world with incredible expertise, practice and the latest research. This year’s event included 400+ world class speakers such as Professor John Hattie; Dr Jamila Lyiscott; Lord Sebastian Coe OBE; and Professionally Speaking 2022 keynote, Professor Yong Zhao. There were also contributions from EWC Chief Executive, Hayden Llewellyn who spoke about the importance of regulation in building a professional education workforce, and EWC Director of Professional Development, Accreditation and Policy, Bethan Holliday-Stacey who discussed what registration and regulation means to registrants. 

Registration is still open via Hwb for those who have not yet signed up. Attendees will also gain access to a learning planner so they can easily align the sessions to school priorities.

The Ethnic Youth Support Team (EYST), Conwy Youth Service and NYAS Cymru have become the latest organisations to be awarded the Quality Mark for Youth Work (QMYW) in Wales.

After a robust assessment, EYST and NYAS Cymru were awarded the bronze QMYW whilst Conwy Youth Service renewed their silver QMYW.

As part of the assessment, the organisations needed to show that their service:

• • provided a welcoming and safe environment with access to trusted and skilled staff and volunteers
  • had appropriate leadership, governance, and monitoring and evaluation processes
  • promoted inclusive practice
  • ensured provision was planned to meet the needs of young people

Assessors said that they were very impressed and inspired by the organisations’ commitment to young people.

Lee Tiratira from EYST said “We are thrilled to have been awarded our bronze Quality Mark for our youth work offer. Across the organisation, our youth team are committed to youth work and continually enhancing our practice. We see this mark as a step in the right direction in developing our work and increasing the benefit to young people and our reach in Wales.”

Rachel Simmonds from Conwy Youth Service said “The assessment process gave us the opportunity to reflect on how we involve young people in decision making, and what we can do to further improve our offer for young people. It also gave us an opportunity to showcase some excellent youth work, providing an opportunity to celebrate the youth team’s passion and commitment to making a positive difference to young people lives in Conwy.”

Sharon Lovell from NYAS Cymru said “I am absolutely delighted that NYAS Cymru have been awarded the bronze Quality Mark to recognise the outstanding work we achieve with and for young people in Wales. Youth work changes lives and at NYAS Cymru we ensure care experienced young people have access and are able to thrive through participation and engagement of all that youth work has to offer.

The Quality Mark supports and recognises improving standards in the provision, practice and performance of organisations that deliver youth work across Wales. It helps those organisations demonstrate and celebrate excellence in their work with young people.

Andrew Borsden, Youth Work Quality Mark Development Officer at EWC said: “The quality of youth work in these organisations was of the highest standard. The feedback from young people was inspiring and exemplified the dedication of youth workers in Wales.”

For more information on the Quality Mark, including details on how to apply, visit the EWC website.

In September 2019, following an extensive period of consultation and engagement, the Education Workforce Council (EWC) published its Code of Professional Conduct and Practice.

Under legislation, EWC will review the Code every three years. Since the current version was implemented, it has stood the test of time in the way it was written, the content, and its relevance to practitioners across all seven registrant groups.

As such, the latest review will be a light touch one. EWC invites its registrants, stakeholders and the public to share any comments or observations they may have about the Code. You can do this by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., using the subject line ‘CODE REVIEW’. The deadline for comments is Tuesday 7 June 2022.

A recent update to the Professional Learning Passport (PLP) now gives you greater control over how you interact with your professional standards. With this latest development, you can choose to zoom in and see your evidence, learning and reflections for a specific timeframe, making it easier to view your progress at given moments or milestones in your career.

The PLP gives you the space to reflect on your practice and learning, in the context of your professional standards. Your standards workbook brings together all of your learning evidence, providing you with a visual representation of your professional journey. Whether you are looking to show off your accomplishments during the last year, have your performance review with your manager, or you are starting a new role and want to start with a fresh standards workbook, the new date filter tool will allow you to do this.

We’ve even created a quick guide to show you how it all works.

This is just one of many features we have introduced over the last few years to ensure that the PLP continues to meet your needs as an education practitioner.

If you have any questions or feedback on the new date filter tools, or you would like to book a demonstration of the PLP for your organisation, please contact us.

We also have a handy little guide which will help anyone new to the PLP set up your account.