Partnerships

We are working with partners across the country to build out new professional pathways for people working with children and families.

Foundation Degree

Offer your non-graduate staff a way to work towards a degree without leaving their jobs or communities.

A 2-year programme, it is designed to:

  • Provide staff with an‬‭ accessible‬‭ pathway‬‭ to‬‭ graduate level jobs

  • Offer employers a practical way to develop their workforce‬

  • Develop a‬‭ more‬‭ connected‬‭ children’s workforce‬‭ in‬‭ communities

  • Support a national‭ agenda‬‭ for‬‭ more‬‭ coherent,‬‭ community-led‬‭ services‬‭

Click here to learn more about the course.

Our partners

Subject to validation, the Foundation Degree will be delivered in partnership with a network of delivery centres around the country.


In 2026 we intend to offer the programme at delivery centres in London, Plymouth, Newcastle, Leeds, Barnsley, Bristol, Somerset, Leicester, and Birmingham.

Become a delivery centre

To make this programme accessible to organisations of all sizes and capacities, we have developed three models of partnership.

Each offers a different level of involvement, allowing partners to engage at the level that best suits their context, resource, and ambition.

1.

Hub Partners, hosting local cohorts and supporting recruitment while CCW delivers teaching.

2.

Capacity-Building Partners, 
co-delivering with CCW lecturers to grow local expertise.

3.

In-House Delivery Partners, leading delivery directly as part of a national quality framework.

Partner with us

Express your interest in becoming a delivery centre.