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NDNA awarded £71,000 to run early years training for veterans and army families

The National Day Nurseries Association has been awarded funding by the Armed Forces Covenant Fund to offer early years training to former veterans and partners of those currently serving in the military.
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NDNAs Childcare Works will offer run in partnership with Catterick Garrison in England and Hightown Barracks in Wales to offer a training pathway to a career in early education and care. 

The charity has been awarded £71,800 funding from the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust’s Supporting Partners programme to deliver the training and employment project.  

Participants on the programme will be employed by NDNA as trainee nursery assistants and paid for 16 weeks.  

The Childcare Works programme starts with a four-week training period on specific skills and knowledge that a trainee nursery assistant would require to be able to start working in a setting followed by a 12-week placement in a nursery.   

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