Nursery World - Nursery Management: Training

Early years providers are doing it for themselves when it comes to making sure their staff can gain the skills and understanding that their settings require. Karen Faux hears what they most value.

While there is clarity around requirements for continuing professional development under the revised EYFS, the early years sector continues to protest that Level 2 and 3 qualifications are simply not up to scratch.

In her final report on qualifications, published in June, Professor Cathy Nutbrown was emphatic in her rejection of the move to a single qualification as a licence to practice. The report delivered a raft of recommendations designed to return to the standards of the old NNEB.

On the whole, the sector has responded positively - particularly to Professor Nutbrown's recommendations that Level 3 should be strengthened with more child development content, and that college tuition and work placements should be of a higher quality. Some people feel slightly less comfortable with her proposal that GCSE English and maths A-C grades should be required for entry to a Level 3 course and should become the sector standard.

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