Early Years Professional Status; will it still exist?

[KatyMac]

I'm 5/6th of my way through a business degree with the intent to do a top-up EYP when I was finished

The local uni says it may not be doing EYP's any more

Does anyone know what is happening with it?

My council said I should still do it. Just finished my BA and asked if it would be phased out.

But it's not being offered locally (apparently)

Something may be offered in January but they aren't sure what

I would say go for it. our current government published that they wat an
tleast one EYPS membe rin every earlyyears childcare setting from 2015. if you get it now you'll be in a better position for once the plans are all finalised.

My local college is going to start offering an EYP course from next year. The coalition government have said that they are committed to keeping the EYPS and the EYFS review still stresses the importance of a better qualified early years workforce.
The EYPS course is fully funded so I would say go for it.

It's the only funded EY qualification in my LA now, although that doesn't necessarily mean that it wouldn't be phased out later on. My Ofsted inspector was very keen that I do it, but I'm not so sure.

The young people workforce development people (who 'sorted out' the new NVQ/diploma) are re-looking at the EYP atm apparently

The Children's Workforce Development Council announced a couple of weeks ago that it will be relaunched in January 2012 and listed the new providers. If you go to their website you will find details of who is offering it and which pathways are available. There are a number of fully funded places (10000 I think) but it can also be self funded.
Some Universities are acting as 'agents' for other areas, so for example Chichester now covers Brighton who used to offer it in their own right.
i did mine with the OU but sadly they didn't win a tender this time :(

www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/

So the reason UEA don't know is because they aren't doing it

why didn't they say

Apparently, so I was led to believe, in years to come there will only be 1 qualification, if you like, to aim for if you want to work with children and that is
Level 3 Diploma for Children and Young Peoples Workforce?
Like I said this is what I was led to belive

No, that will be the minimum qualification required to work with children. Everybody should be aimimg higher.

And EYPS is not a qualification it is an accreditation/validation awarded to graduates who can demonstrate they meet the standards required. It is often done alongside other qualifications such as an FD top up or Early Childhood Studies BA

Will I still be able to do a top-up for a few months? when I finish my degree?

I believe so. As far as I know the top-up route is still available, its the 4-month validation pathway that I did which seems to have disappeared, and now the minimum is 6months. The FD top-up was 15months. I'm not up to speed on the changes yet but there is quite a bit of info on the CWDC website (posted link earlier I think). It will also tell you which training provider is covering your area.

www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/early-years/eypsproviders
Hope this works...

Oh that was the one I was hoping for.....4 months of proving I know my stuff

Never mind I guess I can do 6 months of proving my stuff - my OU degree has all been childcare based anyway despite it being business

Yes, I'm not sure why they ditched the validation only route. It's a shame the OU lost their tender too. I did it through them and it was ideal. I couldn't get to Chichester at the times they were running the course and when I did manage to arrange cover after deferring 3 months they changed the timetable!

I would have loved to do it with OU - moving classes is a sore point for me atm - they moved DD's ballet class so she can't do her arts award

Meanies! I don't think organisers realise the disruption they can cause