Recruitment company approved to deliver Level 2 and 3 apprenticeships

The group’s training arm, Bamboo Training and Apprenticeships, will now deliver Level 2 and 3 apprenticeships in Early Years and Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools.

As part of reforms to the apprenticeships system from May 2017, the majority of training organisations are now only eligible to deliver apprenticeship training if they are on the register.

Bamboo Resourcing received its registration on 31 January 2018 and will offer the following CACHE-accredited courses:

Directors Eleanor Patel and Hayley Knowles set up the company in 2009, with Bamboo Childcare, the company’s permanent recruitment division, representing the core of the business.

Ms Patel said, ‘We have always been really passionate about the sector, and wanted to encourage people in to it. In recent years there has been a crisis in numbers of qualified practitioners, which in turn causes major issues for nurseries recruiting, and we got a bit stuck on what we could do to help. We were visiting schools and colleges but as recruiters we could only place people who already had the qualifications. Now we can help them directly. It’s really exciting as we can finally do what we want to, which is work with young people, help them in to the sector, and hopefully also contribute to helping the crisis.’