As the old year gives way to the new, the first cohort of students are beginning to graduate from the new standards-based Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship. It hasn’t been an easy ride for them, with their learning interrupted by a global pandemic. It also was not an easy ride for the qualification itself, which finally launched in April 2019, five years after the first trailblazer group was set up to develop it. That group was disbanded after a row over the removal of functional skills from the qualification – something the Department for Education later changed its mind about.
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