Despite several years of re-organisation and rationalisation in childcare qualifications, early years trainers and managers are bracing themselves for further changes in the months ahead.
Some observers hope that the revisions that will be brought in as a result of the raft of Government-sponsored reviews into the Foundation Years, which encompass professional qualifications, will provide some added value but leave the basic structures in place. Others think the reforms may go deeper. But whatever happens, the current uncertainty makes it hard to plan ahead at the moment.
Nicola Amies, director of early years at Bright Horizons, says, 'The best way to describe it is to say there is a tsunami across the early years landscape. There is so much change happening, it is as if we got dressed in the dark and can't see how everything is connected together. You have to get your head around what are recommendations, what is aspirational, and what are the actual requirements.'
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