City and Guilds Professional Plumbing Courses

Under direction from the government, the City and Guilds has introduced an additional format for qualifications known as the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF).

Within this framework two new plumbing courses have been introduced as follows as follows:

City and Guilds 6189 Level 2 Diploma in Plumbing and Heating

City and Guilds 6189 Level 2 Diploma in installing and Maintaining Domestic Heating Systems

The new C&G 6189 Professional Plumbing Diploma qualifications will not affect any existing City and Guilds Plumbing qualifications that you may already hold or are working towards.

The C&G 6189 NVQ Level 2 Diploma in Plumbing and Heating is a composite of the underpinning knowledge and practical training which is certificated by the C&G 6129-02 Technical Certificate and the measurement of on-site competence certificated by the C&G 6089-02 NVQ Level 2.

In order to ensure transition to the new City and Guilds 6189 Professional Plumbing Diploma, the City and Guilds has announced a cut-off date of March 31st 2011 for registrations onto the existing C&G 6089-02 NVQ Level 2 and the C&G 6089-03 NVQ Level 3. The C&G 6129 Technical Certificate is unaffected.

The C&G 6189 Level 2 Diploma in Plumbing and Heating is intended for those people wishing to become plumbers and heating engineers.

The C&G 6189 Level 2 Diploma in installing and Maintaining Domestic Heating Systems is intended for people who want to just become heating engineers.

Plumbing Courses from Trade Qualified

For plumbers who complete their Technical Certificate on either of our PPC2 or PPC3 plumbing courses, Trade Qualified offers the option to undertake on-site assessments enabling them to complete the C&G 6189 Level 2 Diploma in Plumbing and Heating.

If you are currently a holder of or you are working towards the City and Guilds 6129-02 Technical Certificate and you think that at some future time you may want to complete your NVQ plumbing course (note that you will need to be actually working as a plumber either employed or self employed), there is no urgency because the City and Guilds 6189 Diploma will be the City and Guilds NVQ plumbing qualification for the foreseeable future.

You should be aware that whereas we encourage every tradesman to gain all the qualifications they can, there continues to be no legal requirement that anyone wishing to work as either an employed or self-employed plumber must undertake the necessary plumbing courses to hold an NVQ plumbing qualification.