The standard sets out the knowledge, skills and behaviors learners undergoing the new three-year qualification will be required to demonstrate. It also acts as a guide for employers and training providers to develop courses and recruit learners as early as next year.
The DfE has also today published further detail of the new experience-based route for early years staff to count in Level 3 ratios.
Early education Minister Stephen Morgan said, ‘High-quality early education is central to our mission to break the unfair link between background and opportunity.
‘We are driving up quality through our Plan for Change, and these new training pathways are a vital step in delivering an early years system that works for parents and providers, and makes sure thousands more children start school ready to learn.’
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