Nursery World - Functional Skills 'will be accepted' on current apprenticeship framework

An apprenticeship body has confirmed that Functional Skills will be accepted on the current early years apprenticeship framework.

Training providers had been worried that the GCSEs U-turn would not apply to apprentices who had signed up to the current apprenticeship framework, despite the DfE saying the change would apply to anyone studying an EYE since September 2014.

This is because Functional Skills had been removed from the early years apprenticeship framework at Level 3, which current L3 apprentices have signed up to.

Training company PBD told Nursery World that Apprenticeship Certificates England has now confirmed: ‘Skills for Care will accept Functional Skills Level 2 for learners on the EYE framework. If you have any learners who are currently at [sic] rejected because they have Functional Skills then these learners can be resubmitted to us for certification.’

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