Last year, 23 per cent of children in England failed to achieve the expected level in mathematics at the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage, the same level as in 2014. An All-Party Parliamentary Group for maths looking at how to raise standards of teaching in pre-schools that year heard that many working with under-fives lack confidence in the subject.
The year 2014 was also when the DfE brought in the new early years educator qualification, which came with a new requirement for Level 3 students to have maths GCSE at grade C, resulting in 30 per cent fewer students finishing courses between July and September 2015 than the previous year, a Nursery Worldand CACHE investigation found.
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