Nursery employers want to attract bright, academically able students into the sector and get the message out that an early years career offers wide opportunities. This is particularly pertinent in the light of the new GCSE requirements for Level 3 study.
An initiative launched by Skills for Care & Development (SfCD) now promises to provide valuable support with this mission. 'Ambassadors for careers with children and young people' has been trialled in the past 12 months and now has official lift-off, with the help of co-investment from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
Ambassadors is part of a wider SfCD project, entitled Recruiting a World Class Workforce, which involves the organisation working in partnership with organisations and individuals to support employers with recruitment. Its starting point is the challenge that employers face in seeking to recruit some 90,000 new workers into the care and children's services sector each year for the foreseeable future.
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