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DfE seeks views on new experience-based route qualification for early years practitioners

Monday, April 22, 2024

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A consultation on plans to introduce a new experience-based route for unqualified early years practitioners to count in ratios has been launched today.

Call for next Government to prioritise 1.9m children struggling with speech and language

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Friday, March 22, 2024

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Speech and Language UK has launched its manifesto to draw the attention of all political parties to help the one in five children in the UK who struggle with talking and understanding words.

Tens of thousands register for DfE's early years catch-up training

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Thursday, January 25, 2024

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Tens of thousands of early years professionals have signed up to the DfE’s education recovery training courses, designed to improve children’s outcomes,including those that are disadvantaged.

30 hours expansion: DfE commits £100m in funding to expand provision and EYFS regulatory changes

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Friday, October 27, 2023

| Nursery World

The Government has announced £100m in capital funding for early years providers to expand their provision ahead of the 30 hours extension, along with regulatory changes to the EYFS to provide more 'flexibility for settings'.

Prime minister sets out plan to combine A Levels and T Levels

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Thursday, October 5, 2023

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A Levels and T Levels will be combined into British Standard Qualification for 16- to -19-year-olds.

Proposed Government changes to childcare qualifications spark concern about 'de-professionalisation' of the workforce'

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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

| Nursery World

Early years organisations, experts and consultants are worried that Government proposals on changes to early years qualifications, outlined in a consultation launched today, could lower standards and ultimately, the quality of care.

Wales launches ant-racist training and resources for practitioners working with babies and young children

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Friday, May 12, 2023

| Nursery World

The Welsh government has launched anti-racist professional training for the childcare, playwork and early years sector.

Number of children in receipt of early years pupil premium at record high

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Thursday, June 30, 2022

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The number of children eligible for the early years pupil premium has risen to 116,500, the highest on record, reveal national statistics.

Year long inquiry into UK education calls for a 'significant boost' to early years funding

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

| Nursery World

A new report finds the education system is ‘failing’ and calls for wide scale change including reform of Ofsted, increased early years funding and measures to ‘level the playing field’ between advantaged and disadvantaged children.

Level 3 EYE qualification to be reviewed this summer

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Tuesday, June 14, 2022

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The Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification (EYE) will be reviewed by the national education awarding organisation NCFE in the summer.

Early years sector condemns Telegraph article and unites behind Liz Pemberton's 'vital work'

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Tuesday, May 10, 2022

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The sector has rallied behind early years expert and trainer Liz Pemberton, after The Telegraph published what many consider to be a highly personal attack about her company The Black Nursery Manager, under the headline ‘Councils hire “Maoist” consultants to “decolonise minds” of nursery school children.’

DfE urged to make full and relevant qualifications list 'easier to understand'

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Friday, March 18, 2022

| Nursery World

There are calls for the Department for Education to make its early years qualifications list simpler, as confusion mounts within the sector over which qualifications are 'full and relevant' with many graduates finding they don't have a 'licence to practice'.

New PhD to focus on Welsh language in the early years and the new curriculum

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Monday, December 20, 2021

| Nursery World

Welsh-medium early years organisation Mudiad Meithrin has announced it has been successful in its bid to fund a PhD jointly with Swansea University and Cardiff Metropolitan University on a topic relating to the early years and the New Curriculum in Wales.

Survey highlights 'sector-wide' early years workforce crisis

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Thursday, December 2, 2021

| Nursery World

More than eight in ten early years settings are struggling to recruit staff and half of them are having to turn away new parents because of staff shortages, sector research suggests.

Degree-level practitioners sought for DfE mentoring programme

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Friday, November 12, 2021

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The DfE is looking for early years 'experts', 'mentors' and 'area leads' for its leadership support and mentoring programme – one of a number of measures announced as part of the £153m Early Years Recovery programme.

DfE to reform Level 3 early years qualifications

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Friday, October 29, 2021

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The Department for Education is to review and reform level 3 early years qualifications as part of its measures to address the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on young children.

New early years leadership qualification available from Autumn 2022

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Friday, October 15, 2021

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has launched a new early years leadership qualification for Level 3 qualified and above practitioners working in private, voluntary and independent settings.

Education secretary announces plans to 'invest' in early years staff

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Tuesday, October 5, 2021

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The Government is to overhaul teacher training and invest in outstanding early years staff, the education secretary Nadhim Zahawi told delegates at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester.

DfE announces extension to early years training programme to support children's language skills

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Monday, September 6, 2021

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Up to 2,000 childcare practitioners are set to benefit from the second phase of the Government’s Early Years Professional Development programme (PDP) to boost children's early language and numeracy skills.

Cash boost for nurseries hosting T Level placements

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Thursday, May 27, 2021

| Nursery World

Employers will be able to claim a £1,000 cash boost for every Education and Childcare T Level student they host on an industry placement, as part of a new incentive scheme launched by the Department for Education.

Parents 'will be turned away' due to Level 3 staffing crisis

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

| Nursery World

While recruiting Level 3-qualified staff has been an issue for several years, settings have told Nursery World that the situation is now so dire they fear they will be forced to turn families away because of staff shortages.

New Years Honours recognise dedication and service of early years professionals

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Monday, January 4, 2021

| Nursery World

Laura Henry-Allain is one of several leading early years figures named in the 2021 New Year Honours List.

Childcare Level 3 qualifications to be free from April

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Wednesday, December 9, 2020

| Nursery World

Childcare Level 3 qualifications are among 400 fully-funded courses for adults that the Government is making available for free from April 2021.

Norland Nanny principal joins campaign to regulate nannies

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Thursday, November 26, 2020

| Nursery World

The principal of Norland College, Dr Janet Rose, has been appointed the first patron of Regulation Matters (RM), the campaign which calls for the registration of nannies and regulation of nanny agencies.

Early years workforce: 'Forgotten key workers' driven out by low pay in increasingly volatile sector

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Tuesday, August 4, 2020

| Nursery World

One in 8 childcare workers is paid less than £5 an hour and many are forced to take on second jobs to make ends meet, a report commissioned by the Government’s Social Mobility Commission has found.

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DfE seeks views on new experience-based route qualification for early years practitioners

Call for next Government to prioritise 1.9m children struggling with speech and language

Tens of thousands register for DfE's early years catch-up training

30 hours expansion: DfE commits £100m in funding to expand provision and EYFS regulatory changes

Prime minister sets out plan to combine A Levels and T Levels

Proposed Government changes to childcare qualifications spark concern about 'de-professionalisation' of the workforce'

Wales launches ant-racist training and resources for practitioners working with babies and young children

Number of children in receipt of early years pupil premium at record high

Year long inquiry into UK education calls for a 'significant boost' to early years funding

Level 3 EYE qualification to be reviewed this summer

Early years sector condemns Telegraph article and unites behind Liz Pemberton's 'vital work'

DfE urged to make full and relevant qualifications list 'easier to understand'

New PhD to focus on Welsh language in the early years and the new curriculum

Survey highlights 'sector-wide' early years workforce crisis

Degree-level practitioners sought for DfE mentoring programme

DfE to reform Level 3 early years qualifications

New early years leadership qualification available from Autumn 2022

Education secretary announces plans to 'invest' in early years staff

DfE announces extension to early years training programme to support children's language skills

Cash boost for nurseries hosting T Level placements

Parents 'will be turned away' due to Level 3 staffing crisis

New Years Honours recognise dedication and service of early years professionals

Childcare Level 3 qualifications to be free from April

Norland Nanny principal joins campaign to regulate nannies

Early years workforce: 'Forgotten key workers' driven out by low pay in increasingly volatile sector

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