Participants in the National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership (NPQICL) have strongly praised it in an evaluation report.
The Level 5 Early Years Lead Practitioner apprenticeship has been formally approved for delivery by the Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education.
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.
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The level 3 diploma continues to pose problems in training for the sector.
Thousands of early years and childcare workers are currently unable to undertake a Level 5 qualification in childcare because there is no Government funding available to them.
‘Birth to 5 Matters – Guidance by the sector, for the sector’ is on track to be launched later this month after the final sector consultation on the non-statutory Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)...
The sector and families would benefit from more practitioners educated to degree level, but this requires Government action