Experience-based route for early years practitioners – DfE consultation

The Department for Education (DfE) have launched a 4-week consultation on the experience-based route for early years practitioners, following positive sector feedback to this proposal in the 2023 EYFS consultation.

The experience-based route aims to recognise the valuable experience and skills of the sector and give early years providers more flexibility to use their staff effectively by counting additional staff in level 3 ratios. The consultation asks questions about how we think the experience-based route could work.

Experience-based route for early years practitioners – please give us your views

The consultation closes on 20 May.