Nursery World - Training Today: Apprenticeships and T-Levels roundup

Since the end of the Level 3 apprenticeship standard impasse, more apprenticeships are in development. Hannah Crown rounds up the big changes within vocational training

APPRENTICESHIPS: Level 2

Last month came the announcement that a new trailblazer group has been set up to develop a standard for a Level 2 Early Years Practitioner apprenticeship.

The news couldn’t come soon enough for the sector as new Level 2 qualifications based on new Department of Education criteria are coming in from September.

Michael Freeston, the Early Years Alliance’s director of quality improvement, who chairs the new L2 group, said the aim was to get the standard ready for delivery by then to avoid there being no apprenticeship route available once the existing Certificate for the Children’s and Young People’s Workforce is no longer full and relevant in a month’s time.

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