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Training Special: A transformation in early years training

5 mins read Early Years
The number of early years qualifications will be slimmed down from September to create a clearer career path and make it easier for staff to progress. But not everyone is happy about the change, as Joe Lepper discovers.

Ambition is a trait that childcare trainee Stacey Marsh has in abundance.

Marsh, who last year started as a nursery assistant at the Busy Bees nursery in Lancaster as well as studying for her Level 2 course in childcare learning and development, aspires to "go as far as I can in childcare."

"I don't want to stop with my Level 2. I'm enrolling to take the Level 3 diploma next term and want to keep going. My manager has just completed her Level 6 and that's what I want to do as well one day," she says.

Marsh is the kind of student that the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) has in mind with its changes to childcare training that come into force in September.

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