Okay, thanks. Level 5 is not a qualification but it's a status. It brings no increase in pay. Level 1 teaching assistants can attain it—this is all from a teaching assistant who's raised concerns with me. Training takes just six weeks—just three days out of school. Only a single piece of work needs to be prepared for a child, a group or a class. The qualification you need to do it is a single GCSE in maths or English. I think, really, this is just another example of education being used as a cash cow to pay for meaningless not even qualifications in this case, which make non-teaching staff able to undertake more responsibilities without extra pay. The question behind all this, on behalf of the members of staff who contacted me, is: how is this masquerade any use at all in raising standards?