The Level 3 certificate for work with children in early years or playwork is aimed at experienced early years practitioners, childcare workers and playworkers who have been working in a Level 3 role but do not hold a formal Level 3 qualification, and for those who gained qualifications before the Children Act 1989.
The qualification is the first award devised by the Government to use the APEL (Accreditation for Prior Experience and Learning) assessment methodology. An estimated 20,000 early years and playworkers will have to undergo this route to Level 3 to meet the Government's new national standards for daycare.
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