Transformation Fund Guidance

Contact:

fund.transformation@dfes.gsi.gov.uk

Provider:

DCSF

Topics:

Early years and childcare, Workforce reform and training

Type:

Information and guidance

Date:

March 2007

The Transformation Fund aims to raise the quality of private, voluntary and independent (PVI) childcare for the under fives, by supporting the development of the workforce without compromising the affordability and availability of childcare. The fund provides £250m for the period from April 2006 until August 2008.

The fund supports the transformation of PVI childcare settings by:

• Establishing, and providing financial support for, training routes towards a new graduate-level status for early years professionals.
• Supporting the government's objective to ensure that all full-day childcare settings employ a graduate with early year's professional status by 2015. The fund does this by providing a recruitment incentive and a quality premium for eligible full daycare providers.
• Investing in level 3-5 training and development to increase the skills and qualifications of staff employed in PVI chidcare settings, in particular by increasing the numbers with a level 3 qualification.
• Training more staff in the PVI childcare sectors to work with disabled children and those with SEN.

Read more about the Transformation Fund.

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Last updated on 28/03/2006