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Good-quality care, education and play for all children in their early years raise educational standards and opportunities, and enhance children's social development.
To ensure that quality services are provided for children, a suitably qualified workforce is essential. The Government's response to the Children's Workforce Strategy consultation, published in February 2006, set out plans to establish a more professional Early Years workforce.
The Government has provided funding since 2006 through the Transformation Fund (£250 million), and now through the Graduate Leader Fund (a further £305 million), to help transform and professionalise the Early Years workforce and deliver the Ten Year Strategy for Childcare.
Graduate Leader Fund guidelines (March 2008)
Example of Graduate Leader Fund framework (March 2008)
Dorset County Council explains how it applied the Graduate Leader Fund locally, using a framework, a flowchart and illustrative examples.
Example of Early Years Professional local marketing featuring case studies (December 2008)
Leicestershire County Council has provided effective practice case studies highlighting the benefits of gaining Early Years Professional (EYP) status for a range of practitioners. There is also further information on their developing EYP network.
Childcare Implementation Project
The Childcare Implementation Project, which is scoping out the impact of the Childcare Bill, is also investigating workforce development. LAs may find this information useful for information about best practice.
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Graduate leader fund: Guidelines
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Last updated on 05/05/2009
