{"id":18843,"date":"2025-10-16T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=18843"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:02:27","slug":"switch-into-something-big-a-campaign-to-inspire-more-people-to-consider-a-career-in-early-years-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/switch-into-something-big-a-campaign-to-inspire-more-people-to-consider-a-career-in-early-years-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch into something BIG &#8211; a campaign to inspire more people to consider a career in early years education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September the Department for Education launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/earlyyearscareers.campaign.gov.uk\/the-big-september-switch\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Switch Campaign.<\/a> As part of this campaign an early years careers guide was launched to inspire more people to consider a career in early years education.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the guide here: <a href=\"https:\/\/earlyyearscareers.campaign.gov.uk\/the-big-september-switch\/\" rel=\"noopener\">The Big September Switch &#8211; Early Years Careers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were thrilled to hear that one of our early years providers, Amelia Joyner from Cullompton Pre School, took part in a radio interview on BBC Radio Devon to talk about her experience of working in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>A recording of the interview can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fsounds%2Fplay%2Fm002j6j8&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ceducate.earlyyearscommunication-mailbox%40devon.gov.uk%7C9bb747fa05244281277908de0bc46c05%7C8da13783cb68443fbb4b997f77fd5bfb%7C0%7C0%7C638961135767754148%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=c7nSLgEN%2B58TqAdJzfvcVFjNM780gsnYOIqpBoetWg0%3D&amp;reserved=0\" rel=\"noopener\">on the BBC Sounds website<\/a> (Amelia\u2019s interview is timestamped between 1:22:50 to 1:30:15 for those that would like to listen) &#8211; please note that unfortunately the recording will only be available to listen to until 17 October.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18847 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2025\/10\/do-something-big.png\" alt=\"Do something BIG\" width=\"185\" height=\"131\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September the Department for Education launched the Big Switch Campaign. As part of this campaign an early years careers guide was launched to inspire more people to consider a career in early years education. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 21:18:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18848,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18843\/revisions\/18848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}