The proverbial cat seems to have been well and truly put among the pigeons with the launch of the Children's Workforce Development Council's tendering process for the delivery of Early Years Professional Status for 2012-14 (see News, page 4).
The fact that unless you are a training organisation that has been approved to join the Leadership and Training Framework, led by National College with CWDC and the TDA, you are not eligible to tender to deliver future programmes including EYPS, seems to have eluded many EYPS providers.
Most of the current EYPS training providers are not on the procurement framework, including prominent names such as Edge Hill University, Sheffield Hallam University and Tribal. Course leaders are reluctant to talk, but it is obvious that there is suspicion, anger and confusion about the process.
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