Report RE: Need to get this off my chest

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by: timmylums

Hi millie

It is great to hear from someone who shares my thoughts, at the moment I am working in various settings on supply as it suited me to do the 12 month pathway for my EYPs and enabled me to experience different settings in the process. During my training I spent six months in a setting were several staff are training for NVQ 3's and they attend college one day per week. Each of the candidates attend different colleges but are really getting their head around their studies and they are working really hard for very low rewards at the moment. I have worked in other settings were staff openly admit that they fail to attend college and are not getting any guidance from the nursery management as the longer they take to complete the qualification the better it is for the nursery's finances as they often only receive £80 per week and if they do not go to college they are doing a full 5 day working week. As they are failing to get any input or guidance from anyone they are failing to carry out the job to a suitable standard. Today I was actually working alongside a level 3 who admited that she is yet to look at a copy of the EYFS as she is on supply and takes no responsibility for developing the learning of the children she works alongside. This is quite worrying as she has spent upto 6 months in a setting so I wonder how she has contributed to any planning. I wonder sometimes were it is all heading but I really do pity people who fail to get the ongoing training and development that is needed to keep up with the ever changing systems and requirements within this industry, I don't know what others may think!     

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