The minister shared highlights from the report and talked about the Government's proposals to raise the standard of childcare qualifications, set up childminder agencies, and give nurseries with highly qualified staff more flexibility over staff: child ratios.
Early Years Teachers
The early years teacher is going to be required to pass the same tests on literacy and numeracy as school teachers. We’ll be setting that out in teacher standards – Charlie Taylor will be doing that in due course through the Teaching Agency.
We also want to see more flexibility between early years teachers and primary teachers and we want to see more primary teachers in early years and vice versa. And I think Durand’s a very good example where you see a sort of flow through of teaching staff and teaching assistants.’
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