This standard is suitable for individuals who are working in a setting as managers or deputies. Apprentices working on this standard will need to demonstrate they can competently lead, support and challenge practitioners and collaboratively work with others, within a children’s health and social care environment that doesn’t have easy answers or immediate solutions. In a role where there is no directive for what to do and how to do it, apprentices will need to articulate their own exercise of influence, express their values and their sense of purpose and vision and demonstrate how this impacts on their work with others and on their decision making. We would expect to see evidence of their leadership, thinking skills and problem-solving skills, assessment, analysis and use of professional judgement and decision making within a health and social care context, which demonstrates why they decided on a particular course of action, in any given situation. The detailed skills, knowledge and behaviours of a Children, Young People and Families Manager that underpin this aspiration, are outlined in the standard.