Start your childcare career with our updated early years apprenticeships Learn how your career could be impacted by the new proposed funding rule change How NCFE's review of the Early Years Educator Level 3 could change childcare apprenticeships EARLY YEARS NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2022 www.apprenticeshipconnect.co.uk This issue features: A learner case study: How an apprenticeship upskilled my career
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Complete an accredited level 2 safeguarding qualification that is recommended by Ofsted!
Spend more time on the job!
Your learning and development shouldn’t be hindered by unnecessary time off.
UPDATED EARLY YEARS APPRENTICESHIPS!
The qualification will make you a knowledgeable safeguarding professional with the skills to support safeguarding provision.
This qualification boosts your employability and creates an opportunity for you to become a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) in the future.
START YOUR CHILDCARE CAREER WITH OUR
Become a fully-qualified childcare professional with our updated Early Years Practitioner Level 2 and Early Years Educator Level 3 apprenticeships.
This is why we have optimised our lesson times and course delivery to be more efficient and allow you more time on the job, practising your knowledge and skills.
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DISCOVER OUR EXTRACURRICULAR NEW CLASSES!
Challenge yourself with extended learning activities!
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Access new extracurricular activities to enhance your skills!
While completing the Early Years Educator Level 3 course, you can choose from a range of extracurricular lessons to support your professional development.
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This supports your long term career progression and can prepare you for a higher level apprenticeship
Applying to enrolments from October 2022 onward, we used insights from our employers and industry specialists to optimise our childcare curriculums. By tailoring our curriculum to their insights, our courses will teach you the relevant knowledge and skills in demand by early years settings today and improve your employability as a practitioner.
We have upcoming intakes for all our early years apprenticeships, so if you are interested in becoming a childcare apprentice, click here to register your interest!
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In the level 2 course, there will be level 3 activities you can undertake and in the level 3 course, there will be level 5 activities you can complete.
Page 04 | Early Years Newsletter: September 2022 OUR UPCOMING COHORTS We have upcoming course intakes for the following early years apprenticeship courses: Early Years Practitioner Level 2 Early Years Educator Level 3 Early Years Lead Practitioner Level 5 If you want to become an early years apprentice, click here to register your interest! An early years practitioner supports the planning of and delivery of activities, purposeful play opportunities and educational programmes in childcare settings An early years educator has key person responsibility to help ensure children in their care feel safe and secure. An early years lead practitioner supports the operational running of a childcare setting and has a leadership role within the team
What happens next? The deadline for response to the proposed calculation changes is 16th September.
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The change would mean setting a fixed minimum and maximum increase to fun rates. Local authorities receiving the le based on calculations would only see a 1 increase in funding rates. However, loca authorities receiving the most based on calculations would see a rise of up to 8.6 their rate With a record level of inflatio cost of living crisis, the rate increase of unlikely to make up for the rise in opera costs and could put settings out of busi
The proposed changes to for 15 and 30-hour offers disproportionate impact struggling areas.
The Department for Educ on changing the calculatio determine how much fund will receive from 15 and 30 based on the location of th from the Early Years Allian change would mean settin availability, mostly in the n would struggle due to the London and the south, wh place availability, they wou
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NCFE IS REVIEWING THE EARLY YEARS EDUCATOR LEVEL 3 QUALIFICATION!
NCFE, the Northern Council for Further Education, has been tasked with reviewing the qualification using research and feedback from parents, practitioners and training providers They are reviewing the qualification to flag where childcare professionals can be trained to a higher level to deliver better care to children.
Last October the Department for Education announced they will be reviewing the Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification to optimise it following the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on early years children.
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Prior to her apprenticeship, Cristina was working as a nursery assistant and wanted to gain more confidence within her role and better support children with their development at such a crucial stage in their lives. When discussing her
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An apprenticeship can serve as a great opportunity to advance your existing career within the childcare sector. Our Exceptional Performance Award Winner, Cristina Cabanillas Martinez, did exactly that and used our Early Years Educator Level 3 apprenticeship to develop her skills as an early years professional.
Cristina Cabanillas Martinez, Early Years Educator Level 3
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