LEYF, formerly called the Westminster Children's Society, is working closely with a qualified chef and its own cooks to create a more focused training and support programme.
The qualification will equip chefs with basic cookery skills such as how to make bread and how to gut a fish.
The LEYF is working with the Sector Skills Council to have the scheme endorsed.
LEYF chief executive June O'Sullivan said, 'There is no qualification for early years chefs and very few standards. The School Food Trust is putting effort into school dinners, but not early years.
'We have 15 chefs at LEYF. Some are qualified and some aren't, but they all have a shared level of enthusiasm.'
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