The training arm of the UK’s largest nursery group says it has launched the qualification to support career progression within the sector.
The two-year programme is delivered within settings through on and off-the job training, including online training sessions. Learners are supported by a Busy Bees development coach.
As per the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s rules for apprenticeship funding, learners will spend 20 per cent of their contracted working hours undertaking off-the-job training to underpin their practical understanding with theoretical knowledge.
The standard covers the following areas of childcare – leadership and management, child development and theory, pedagogy, health and wellbeing, health and safety, equality, diversity, inclusion and SEND, safeguarding and partnership working.
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