Thank you so much to all who have been involved in supporting our student to achieve her level 2 qualification. Once you have enrolled on your NCFE CACHE course, you will have access to the NCFE CACHE Alumni membership for two years. Fully accredited and nationally recognised NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Workforce (Early Years Educator) qualification. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. To have, or be able to shadow a colleague working with, key children and to have the opportunity to observe children.

At points throughout the programme, your assessor will visit your workplace or placement to complete observations and assessment of your practice. If you don’t already hold these, then we would recommend completing them prior to or after achieving the EYE. It is essential you secure a placement that can provide you with a suitably qualified level three mentor.If you need to study maths and English alongside this course, packages are available to study with OSC to allow you to study and achieve the required qualifications alongside this course. We offer a course replacement service, so if you get into trouble and your course pack is lost or damaged, our Student Support Team can provide you with a new set of materials for a one-time additional fee. This includes those who already hold an EYE qualification, began studying an EYE from September 2014, or will achieve an EYE in the future. This requirement has been moved to managers, who are "responsible for ensuring their staff have the right level of maths knowledge to deliver high-quality early years provision". Most learners aged 19 and over, studying at Level 3 or Level 4, will qualify for these loans from the UK government.

During placement, learners will need support from a professional within the real work environment who will be required to complete professional development records. As the leading Awarding Organisation in the care sector we have surpassed the minimum requirements set out in the Full and Relevant Criteria to develop a qualification which reflects the priorities of practitioners and employers to meet the needs of young children. The qualification meets the Department for Education’s (DfE) Level 3 full and relevant criteria for a Level 3 Early Years Educator. Enrolment paperwork finalised – an Alliance Training Advisor will schedule a Microsoft Teams video meeting with you to review enrolment details and check your identification (please bring photo id to this meeting).From 3 April 2017, the requirement for Level 3 Early Years Educators (EYE) to hold GCSE English and maths A*-C, will be broadened to Level 2 qualifications, including Functional Skills.

Upon achievement of this qualification it is intended that learners will be able to enter the workforce as Early Years Educators. The Early Years Alliance offers the diploma through a blended learning programme which includes online teaching sessions, written tasks, online courses, 1-1 reviews and assessment in the workplace. Learners must achieve 23 mandatory units, equating to 61 credits, which include observational studies and competence in a real work environment.

You will need to have a placement in an early years setting in mainland England with support from a workplace mentor. You will also earn 32 UCAS points once you have successfully completed your course which can be used to support your application to study a related higher education degree.