What is EYPS?
Early
Years Professional Status is a new initiative designed to provide and support
excellent curriculum leadership in early years provision and services. Early
Years Professionals are key to raising the quality of early years provision.
They will lead practice across the new Early Years Foundation Stage, support
and mentor other practitioners and model the skills and behaviours that support
and safeguard children.
It is the Government’s aim to have an Early Years
Professional in all Children’s Centres offering early years provision by 2010
and in every full day-care setting by 2015.
The Early Childhood Studies Scheme Team at London Metropolitan University are
delighted to be able to offer all four pathways towards Early Years Professional
Status. This new area of provision complements our existing portfolio of early
years courses and will be embedded within our existing programmes to ensure
that we can offer a high quality progression route to early years practitioners
throughout the region.
Participants will join a diverse and highly motivated
learning community of early childhood practitioners. The University was the
first in the country to offer higher education training opportunities to those
working with young children, whatever their educational background
