Raising the status of the early years workforce is something that Nursery World has campaigned for over many decades, and increasing the employment of graduates is obviously a positive move.
Making sure that the worth of those graduates is understood and valued is vital too. So replacing the Early Years Professional Status with Early Years Teacher Status looks on the face of it to be a good idea in terms of a name that is higher ‘status’ and better understood by parents and everybody else.
The change followed the Nutbrown Review of qualifications, which recommended a new early years teaching specialist qualifcation. At the time, there were concerns about the fate of the 12,000 or so EYPs who had worked so hard to gain their status, with fears that this would be worth nothing or that they would have to retrain.
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