Recruiting and managing early years staff

Initial teacher training, qualifications criteria, standards, disqualifications.

Services

Applying to waive disqualification: early years and childcare providers

Forms and guidance for childminders and providers of childcare on non-domestic premises.

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Guidance and regulation

Early years qualifications achieved in the United Kingdom
- Guidance
- 1 March 2024
- Department for Education
Check early years qualifications
- Detailed guide
- 5 September 2022
- Department for Education
Apply to join a nursery or other daycare organisation (EY2)
- Detailed guide
- 14 November 2023
- Ofsted
Childminders: report new adults in the home
- Detailed guide
- 17 January 2023
- Ofsted
Report changes to registered people in your nursery or other daycare
- Detailed guide
- 27 February 2024
- Ofsted

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News and communications

Calls for more men to work in the early years

24 April 2019News story

Department for Education

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Policy papers and consultations

Early education and childcare workforce: level 2 qualifications
- 26 July 2018
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 28 February 2018

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Organisations

Department for Education