After much consultation, the Level 2 and 3 early years qualifications were launched this summer, but there are still demands for further changes.
The new awards were a key element in the Labour Government's programme to reform and professionalise the workforce by creating a graduate leadership with all practitioners qualified to at least Level 3.
Although some hoped the awards would be dropped, or subjected to review by the coalition Government, the new Certificate and Diploma for the Children and Young People's Workforce were launched in August.
GILL MASON
'We have the first registrations coming through,' says Gill Mason, community and society adviser with City and Guilds. 'So at long last we are there. There has been a great deal of debate and negotiation around the qualifications and their appropriateness, but we are there. We have a product that is fit for purpose.'
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