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Unemployed parents to be turned into childminders

Out-of-work parents will be trained to become childminders under a new government-funded programme, CYP Now can reveal.

The ABC Pathway Programme will be run by the children’s charity Barnardo’s and the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY).

It is being funded as part of the National Prospectus Grants Programme, a £120m Department for Education scheme designed to boost services for early years, safeguarding and the care system.

The ABC Pathway Programme aims to help unemployed parents who attend children’s centres become registered childminders.

Parents taking part will be given “e-learning” sessions and paediatric first aid training developed by PACEY.

PACEY has also received another grant from the DfE programme to provide a “quality and achievement in early education programme” alongside the National Children’s Bureau.

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