Nursery World - Next step for NVQ standards

The Early Years National Training Organisation (NTO) is preparing to submit for approval details of its review of the national occupational standards. Its proposals outlining the work it wants to carry out and the timescale will go to the Project Standards Approvals Group (PSAG), a body representing the four curriculum authorities across the UK. The submission is just part of the long process of reviewing all the standards currently used in early years care and education NVQs at levels 2 and 3. The new standards will come into force in 2003.

The submission is just part of the long process of reviewing all the standards currently used in early years care and education NVQs at levels 2 and 3. The new standards will come into force in 2003.

The aim of the review is to produce a set of standards that accurately reflect the changing face of childcare and the responsibilities and role of its workforce.

A large part of the review will involve 'plugging the gaps' in the level 2 and 3 standards, principally in management and business skills - omissions that are now all the more glaring in the light of the national occupational standards for NVQ level 4.

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