With the early years workforce strategy, flip-flopping over GCSE requirements, and root and branch reform of apprenticeships – all in the past three years – you’d be forgiven for curling up in a ball and blocking your ears to any mention of yet further changes relating to qualifications.
Tempting as this might be, the Skills Plan is ‘the most significant change in technical education in recent times and cannot be ignored’, says Julie Hyde, associate director of CACHE. ‘Education and skills policy is changing fast – more than ever before, providers need to adapt, or risk being left behind.’
Geraldine Donworth, industry manager at City & Guilds, agrees this signals ‘a big change’ for the early years sector. ‘The Government is planning to simplify the current range of qualifications and reduce them to fit within 15 occupational routes’, she says, while there is also ‘a move towards giving control of setting programme content and standards to employers.’
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