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DfE seeks views on new experience-based route qualification for early years practitioners

Monday, April 22, 2024

| Nursery World

A consultation on plans to introduce a new experience-based route for unqualified early years practitioners to count in ratios has been launched today.

Proposed Government changes to childcare qualifications spark concern about 'de-professionalisation' of the workforce'

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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

| Nursery World

Early years organisations, experts and consultants are worried that Government proposals on changes to early years qualifications, outlined in a consultation launched today, could lower standards and ultimately, the quality of care.

Year long inquiry into UK education calls for a 'significant boost' to early years funding

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

| Nursery World

A new report finds the education system is ‘failing’ and calls for wide scale change including reform of Ofsted, increased early years funding and measures to ‘level the playing field’ between advantaged and disadvantaged children.

Level 3 EYE qualification to be reviewed this summer

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Tuesday, June 14, 2022

| Nursery World

The Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification (EYE) will be reviewed by the national education awarding organisation NCFE in the summer.

Early years sector condemns Telegraph article and unites behind Liz Pemberton's 'vital work'

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Tuesday, May 10, 2022

| Nursery World

The sector has rallied behind early years expert and trainer Liz Pemberton, after The Telegraph published what many consider to be a highly personal attack about her company The Black Nursery Manager, under the headline ‘Councils hire “Maoist” consultants to “decolonise minds” of nursery school children.’

Survey highlights 'sector-wide' early years workforce crisis

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Thursday, December 2, 2021

| Nursery World

More than eight in ten early years settings are struggling to recruit staff and half of them are having to turn away new parents because of staff shortages, sector research suggests.

New early years leadership qualification available from Autumn 2022

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Friday, October 15, 2021

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has launched a new early years leadership qualification for Level 3 qualified and above practitioners working in private, voluntary and independent settings.

Parents 'will be turned away' due to Level 3 staffing crisis

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

| Nursery World

While recruiting Level 3-qualified staff has been an issue for several years, settings have told Nursery World that the situation is now so dire they fear they will be forced to turn families away because of staff shortages.

Early years workforce: 'Forgotten key workers' driven out by low pay in increasingly volatile sector

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Tuesday, August 4, 2020

| Nursery World

One in 8 childcare workers is paid less than £5 an hour and many are forced to take on second jobs to make ends meet, a report commissioned by the Government’s Social Mobility Commission has found.

Level 5 standard in dispute

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Monday, February 3, 2020

| Nursery World

A tug of war is taking place over whether the Level 5 apprenticeship standard should contain a foundation degree or the standard ‘licence to practice’ at Level 3, Nursery World has learned.

Wales expands childcare training scheme

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Friday, March 22, 2019

| Nursery World

Wales has launched the second phase of a government-funded scheme giving participants the chance to trial a career in childcare.

Children in 'Opportunity Area' have improved outcomes

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Friday, February 15, 2019

| Nursery World

Children in the most deprived area of the country have seen a huge improvement in their outcomes at the end of the EYFS following a major programme of targeted Government investment.

Alliance joins DfE and Ofsted to tackle early years workload

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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

| Nursery World

The Pre-school Learning Alliance has teamed up with the Department for Education and Ofsted to tackle workload pressures on early years staff.

Conference to address early years recruitment crisis

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Friday, December 7, 2018

| Nursery World

The challenges of the early years workforce and how to overcome them will be the focus of a half-day conference next month.

Sector gives cautious welcome to Labour childcare pledges

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Monday, October 1, 2018

| Nursery World

We round up reaction from providers, sector organisations and others to Labour's childcare plans

IfA extends early years T-Level consultation again

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Thursday, June 14, 2018

| Nursery World

The deadline for the consultation on the Education and Childcare T-level has been extended again until the end of the month.

Fears that early years T-Level will not give licence to practice

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Monday, June 11, 2018

| Nursery World

Awarding bodies and sector organisations have raised concerns that the early years T-Level won’t equip students with a licence to practice.

DfE scraps School Direct route to EYTS

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Friday, June 8, 2018

| Nursery World

The Government has scrapped the School Direct route to Early Years Teacher Status because it isn’t popular enough, Nursery World has learned.

Stress and mental health problems taking their toll on early years staff

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Friday, June 1, 2018

| Nursery World

One in four early years workers are considering leaving the sector due to stress and mental health problems, a major survey has revealed.

Universities call for action on Early Years Teacher Status

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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

| Nursery World

A letter signed by academics from more than 20 universities is being sent to MPs and ministers this week, warning that the early years graduate workforce is at risk.

PACEY launches annual sector-wide survey

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Tuesday, March 20, 2018

| Nursery World

The Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY) wants to hear from early years and childcare professionals in England and Wales for its annual sector-wide survey.

Early years workforce ‘becoming less qualified’

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Monday, March 19, 2018

| Nursery World

Last week, new analysis of the early years workforce revealed a troubling picture of the sector, with a downward trend in the proportion of qualified staff and the prospect that in the future the workforce may be less qualified than it is now.

Spring statement: apprenticeships, T-levels and business rates

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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

| Nursery World

In the spring statement, Chancellor Philip Hammond said that he was announcing £80m to support small businesses in engaging apprenticeships.

Qualification levels among early years staff are falling

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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

| Nursery World

New analysis of the early years workforce reveals a worrying time for the sector, with a downward trend in the proportion of qualified staff and the prospect that in the future the workforce may be less qualified than it is now.

Ceeda Data: About Early Years 2 - No such thing as free?

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Monday, February 5, 2018

| Nursery World

Ceeda’s second early years sector survey shows that less than half of 30-hours places are offered free of charge, while a third of training budgets are being slashed. Here are the key figures

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DfE seeks views on new experience-based route qualification for early years practitioners

Proposed Government changes to childcare qualifications spark concern about 'de-professionalisation' of the workforce'

Year long inquiry into UK education calls for a 'significant boost' to early years funding

Level 3 EYE qualification to be reviewed this summer

Early years sector condemns Telegraph article and unites behind Liz Pemberton's 'vital work'

Survey highlights 'sector-wide' early years workforce crisis

New early years leadership qualification available from Autumn 2022

Parents 'will be turned away' due to Level 3 staffing crisis

Early years workforce: 'Forgotten key workers' driven out by low pay in increasingly volatile sector

Level 5 standard in dispute

Wales expands childcare training scheme

Children in 'Opportunity Area' have improved outcomes

Alliance joins DfE and Ofsted to tackle early years workload

Conference to address early years recruitment crisis

Sector gives cautious welcome to Labour childcare pledges

IfA extends early years T-Level consultation again

Fears that early years T-Level will not give licence to practice

DfE scraps School Direct route to EYTS

Stress and mental health problems taking their toll on early years staff

Universities call for action on Early Years Teacher Status

PACEY launches annual sector-wide survey

Early years workforce ‘becoming less qualified’

Spring statement: apprenticeships, T-levels and business rates

Qualification levels among early years staff are falling

Ceeda Data: About Early Years 2 - No such thing as free?

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