Nursery World - Concerns over 'inaccurate' qualifications consultation

The deadline is looming for the end of two consultations into the Government’s reforms of childcare training.

Both relate to the streamlining of all childcare qualifications as part of plans to simplify all vocational qualifications under the Skills Plan.

One consultation is on the occupational maps produced (see above) showing how this new system will be organised. However, sector leaders have said this 'has been done with no knowledge of the sector' and a consultation document has been amended since errors were flagged up by Nursery World.

New routes

The maps show vocational qualifications organised into 15 ‘routes to employment’. One route is Education and Childcare, and will contain all childcare qualifications.

The route is subdivided into clusters of occupations which have ‘similar training requirements’ such as ‘early education and childcare assistant’ and the qualifications associated with them, which, according to the document, is a Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification.

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