Early Years Professional Status
Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) is a professional status for practitioners at the Early Years Foundation Stage (ages 0 - 5), which is intended to be broadly equivalent to Qualified Teacher Status (ages 5 - 18). Introduced by the British government in 2007, via the Children's Workforce Development Council, EYPS courses require a degree, and include an assessment in an early years setting - either a placement or within the trainee's own early years workplace.
By 2010, all early years children's centres (of which there are nearly 3000 in the UK) will be required to have at least one Early Years Professional (EYP), and by 2015, all full daycare settings will be required to have at least one,[1] which will require 20,000 EYPs.[2] In early 2009 there were more than 2,500 graduate-level EYPs and a further 2,400 in training in 35 higher education institutions.[1]
Government funding is available (via the Graduate Leader Fund[3]) to support private, voluntary or independent sector daycare in gaining EYPS status,[4] but is not currently available for the 20% of UK early years childcare which is run by the government.[1]
Pay for EYPs however is often only half that of a Newly Qualified Teacher, at £8-9/hr.[1]
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[edit] References
- ^ a b c d The Guardian, 28 April 2009, The poor professionals
- ^ The Guardian, 7 August 2008, Under-fives have almost no male teachers
- ^ CWDC - Funding
- ^ The Guardian, 27 February 2007, Early tears
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