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Early Years

We offer a range of apprenticeship standards in early years. Roles within the early years sector can include, but are not limited to: Early Years Educator, Nursery Practitioner and Childcare Assistant.   

The early years sector is integral to providing high-quality support for children and young people. Apprenticeships in this sector are a great opportunity for on-the-job training to provide valuable workplace experience and off-the-job training to support in achieving professional qualifications.   

With our apprenticeship services, you’ll be provided with your own dedicated Relationship Manager who’ll be on hand to support you at all stages of the apprenticeship journey. All of our standards have been developed by sector experts to ensure you are receiving the highest quality support.     

See listed below our range of early years apprenticeship standards.

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Apprenticeship assessment standards

You can find our reformed Apprenticeship assessment standards in business services here. We will be updating these regularly as more standards become available. You can also see the status of reformed apprenticeship assessment standards here. 

Early Years Educator
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End Point Assessment Standards

As an award-winning end-point assessment organisation (EPAO), we continue to deliver our market-leading EPA service for existing apprenticeship standards. We will also support the transition to reformed apprenticeship assessment models as new standards are introduced.

Early Years
Educator
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Early Years
Practitioner
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Early Years Lead
Practitioner
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