Over the past five years the children's workforce in England has undergone significant change in order to establish a graduate-led profession to improve the quality of provision in all early years settings and raise the profile and status of those working with young children and their families.
A new professional standard for early childhood provision, Early Years Professional Status (EYPS), was launched in 2006 by the Children's Workforce Development Council, along with the ambition that all full daycare settings would be led by graduates by 2015.
Now, evidence of how graduate-level training is affecting the early years workforce is emerging from a three-year research project exploring the impact of obtaining EYPS.
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