Benefits
Benefits to integrated centre leaders
- Builds on participants' own experiences to deepen their understanding of learning about leadership.
- Increases their awareness of practical challenges faced in leading an integrated setting.
- Creates an opportunity to relate theories about leadership to their own practice.
- Enables lifelong learning skills for integrated centre leaders.
- Builds greater self-awareness, personal and professional integration in a setting which requires complex management of conflicting roles and responsibilities.
- The qualification is considered by many higher education institutions (HEIs) to be equivalent to 60 Master's level CAT points, and NCSL recommends that HEIs admit participants to a Master's programme with one-third credit (60 points at M level) under their accreditation of prior learning (APL) arrangements, providing that they hold an NPQICL certificate.
Benefits to the centre
- Increases self confidence of all staff and builds on effective leadership roles within the centre.
- Provides a deeper understanding of the skills needed to lead and manage a children's centre.
- Develops the ability to engage and apply the values, principles and vision of the centre in order to enhance professional practice.
- Builds an effective leadership environment in order to share and support a professional learning community within the centre.
NCSL's online communities
As a participant on NPQICL, you automatically gain access to NCSL's online communities. You will gain access to a private community for your programme and to our public communities.
Our public communities allow you to connect with peers from across the education sector. They are a great place to engage in professional dialogue, to stimulate debate and to learn from the wisdom of others. Within them you have access to a confidential and extensive network of colleagues, experts and policy-makers with whom you can debate, discuss and share ideas.
Find out more about our online communities and watch an introduction to the benefits of online collaboration and discussion 
