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The resources listed below will provide valuable insights into the early years career pathway and strategies for professional development. Remember, continuing professional development is a key aspect of career growth and job satisfaction in the early years sector.
Careers in early years and childcare
Are you considering working in the early years and childcare?
Do something big - Early Years Careers website is developed by the Department of Education (DfE) and sets out their initiative on working in the early years providing information on the value of working with babies and young children.
Cambridgeshire Early Childhood Qualifications Centre (CECQC) offer a range of early years qualifications from entry level to level 3 for people in Cambridgeshire considering and those already working in early years. Visit the CECQC webpages for information on early childhood careers, funding pathways, and professional development programmes.
Progression and career paths
Are you interested in learning more and discovering different career pathways?
Pathway into early years education provides detailed information about different early years job roles, entry points and progression routes.
Childcare professionals
Are you considering becoming a childminder?
Check the childminding webpage for guidance on getting started, and discover the benefits of being a childminder.
Qualifications checker
Need to check the levels of early years qualifications, maths and English requirements required when working in the sector?
Check what qualification levels mean: England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Licences to practice
Need to find early years qualifications that are full and relevant licences to practice?
Check early years qualifications to find out if a person’s qualifications allow them to work in an early years setting, and if you can include them in staff:child ratios.
Overseas qualifications
Do you have qualifications from overseas or need to check practitioners' qualifications meet the DfE requirements?
The Statement of Comparability service helps compare overseas qualifications to UK qualifications and framework levels.
Jobs in early years and childcare
Looking for a job in the early years sector?
Visit the Department for Work & Pensions Find a job website to see early years jobs in Cambridgeshire, and throughout the UK.
