What is the difference between the IQF and the QCF?
The Integrated Qualifications Framework (IQF) aims to integrate units and qualifications within the children’s workforce, and all the units and qualifications that are being developed within vocational education and training will fit with the new Qualification and Credit Framework (QCF) unitised structure. The QCF is the Qualification and Curriculum Authority’s framework that allows separate units to be developed and undertaken, the IQF ensures that whatever units are submitted onto to the QCF within the children’s sector have been developed through an integrated approach and delivered to promote greater transferability and mobility for employees within the sector. The IQF will be fully compatible with the QCF.
