Trainers and practitioners still feel a bit in the dark about the new Level 3. Mary Evans investigates.
Uncertainties surrounding the new Level 3 early years qualification are causing headaches across the sector, from the awarding bodies to the training providers and colleges.
Although the new qualification is not due to be launched until next September, the lead-time necessary for introducing a new award is such that in some respects, training providers are already behind schedule, and they still do not know key details about the content or size of the new qualification.
'It is a very tight time scale,' says Gill Mason, childcare adviser at City and Guilds. 'You could say we are waiting with bated breath. I have just been at a meeting with the CWDC. They are preparing information for the centres to update them on what is going to be in the Level 3. We have less than a year now, and we have made it clear that the training providers and colleges need to be able to plan how they will deliver the new qualification.'
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