Who is eligible to do Early Years Professional (EYP) training and assessment?
Early Years Professional (EYP) training and assessment is funded through the Transformation Fund. The local authority administered part of the Transformation Fund is only for full daycare providers in the private, voluntary and independent (PVI) sector. The CWDC Transformation Fund allocation will be used to support EYP candidates from Children’s Centres as priorities as well as those working within early years settings in the PVI sector. Individuals working in sessional settings, childminders (particularly those leading childminder networks) and those who are employed to support the early years workforce will be eligible for funding. However this will only become available once priority funding places have been allocated by training providers. The following groups are eligible for the funding to do the EYPS work-based pathways: • candidates from PVI full daycare and children’s centres. These are the priority group for EYPS; • candidates from sessional care or childminders (particularl
