A useful U-turn by the DfE?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/help-to-up-skill-childcare-staff-before-they-reach-the-frontline

Government U turns over apprentice GCSEs | Nursery World (http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/nursery-world/news/1152333/government-u-turns-over-apprentice-gcses)

I think it makes sense at this point to have an exit expectancy as this has been a recent initiative but I really think that at some point it needs to be entry...a discussion around colleagues who dispair of the local childcare courses who did not require the basic level of qualification, a lot of students did not work at school under the knowledge that they would get on the course anyway. This was vital education needed for the future....and lost.

I think it makes sense at this point to have an exit expectancy as this has been a recent initiative but I really think that at some point it needs to be entry...a discussion around colleagues who dispair of the local childcare courses who did not require the basic level of qualification, a lot of students did not work at school under the knowledge that they would get on the course anyway. This was vital education needed for the future....and lost.

I must admit I do agree FloraDora.

Surely childcare needs to be moving away from the image oh not going to get your maths and English gcses then go into childcare.