The news comes just a month before the Level 3 Early Years Educator standard is expected to finally be available for new apprentices, and follows the sacking of the first trailblazer group in 2017 after years of delays.
Sources say the trailblazers were at loggerheads with the Institute for Apprenticeships panel - which is chaired by Camberwell Park Specialist Support School head Mary Isherwood - responsible for approving the apprenticeship standards. One of the bones of contention is that the panel is believed to have tried to impose a GCSE requirement on apprenticeships.
Trailblazer groups were set up ‘to put employers in the driving seat’, but now the training academy arm of Busy Bees, which led the group, has released a statement saying ‘We are stepping down because we truly believe it should be an employer-led process and unfortunately this has not been the case.’
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