Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a foster care support worker can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a foster care support worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Foster care support workers assist and support mentally or physically abused children to be legally separated from their parents. They help them to recover by placing them in appropriate families and making sure that the children welfare is a priority.

Technicians and associate professionals 70 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: child care social worker, 72%

child care social worker 72% covered social work assistant 68% covered community care case worker 68% covered crisis situation social worker 68% covered family social worker 67% covered foster care support worker You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from foster care support worker. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a foster care support worker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

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foster care support worker is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a foster care support worker already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.