Early Years Professional Status

Early Years Professionals are highly qualified childcare practitioners who lead practice within a childcare setting.

Practitioners with Early Years Professional Status are graduates who have had their qualifications and experience accredited against a defined framework.

There are a number of different training pathways open to practitioners to enable them to achieve Early Years Professional Status.

Find out more about the Graduate Leader Fund and Early Years Professional

For advice about how to become an Early Years Professional see the Children's Workforce Development Council website (www.cwdcouncil.org.uk)

Funding

To support the aim of all private and voluntary sector full daycare settings to have a graduate leader by 2015, with two in settings for children in the 30% most disadvantaged areas, there is funding support available in the form of Graduate Lead EYP Pathway Funding.

The application deadline for Graduate Lead EYP pathway funding for a September 2010 start is June 10^th 2010.

Further details about this funding is available on the following links.

SSSP GLF EYP Pathway Information (38kb)

SSSP GLF EYP Flowchart  (25kb)

SSSP GLF EYP Framework  (30kb)

SSSP GLF EYP Terms and conditions  (24kb)

SSSP GLF EYP Examples  (26kb)

SSSP GLF EYP Maths and English GCSE application form (25kb) Word

SSSP GLF EYP Pathway application form(word) (29kb) Word

To apply for levels five or six qualification funding see the page making a training application

All SSSP GLF application forms should be returned to: Swindon Sure Start Partnership, c/o Civic Offices, Euclid Street, Swindon, SN1 2JH