Workforce Development

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Workforce Development

• 5 October 2007
• Training Team
• Kate Duffy
• Julie Murphy

2
Transformation Fund

• 27 full day care settings have accessed training
  courses
• 34 settings have staff working towards accredited
  professional development.
• 15 settings have a commitment to establishing an
  Early years professional.

3
Transformation Fund

• To date
• 40,000 on bursary/course fees
• 35,000 for Student Support Grant
• 38,000 for backfill and overtime
• 25,000 Training Courses
• 60,000 for Quality Premium/Recruitment Incentive
• Total - 198,000 claimed by PVI settings.

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September - March

• 60,000 Quality Premium/Recruitment incentive
• 30,000 Home Grown Graduate Incentive
• 68,000 - Student Support Grant
• 30,000 Bursaries
• 40,000 Training Courses

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Graduate Leader Fund

• March 2008 March 2011. Transformation Fund will
  be replaced by Graduate leader Fund.
• Aims to ensure that a graduate leads the EYFS
  within every PVI setting.
• Funds directly given to settings who are
  committed to supporting a practitioner reach
  EYPS/graduate status.
• Bursaries
• An increase in modular accredited training over
  short day courses.

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Managers have you identified who your EYPS will
be?

• A short video clip
• An EYP will lead the Early Years Foundation Stage
  framework.
• Managers will work with EYP to give direction as
  to how they impact upon the development in the
  setting.

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Code of Practice

• To ensure and monitor quality training that can
  clearly show impact in settings and with
  practitioners practice.
• To ensure that practitioners have choice but are
  also undertaking the right course in the best
  learning mode for them.
• Currently organisations complete are Gateshead
  College PSLA Horizon
• Practitioners must apply for the funding prior to
  enrolling to ensure that bursary can be paid.

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Bursary application process

• Apply for funding
• Enrol with confirmation letter
• Sign terms and conditions 3 way Learning
  Agreement
• Data entered onto Database and 1st 25 released
  to provider
• Tracking sheet returned at 6 months and second
  payment released
• Final 50 released as practitioner completes that
  year/qualification
• The provider reserves the right to claim
  remaining funds form practitioner if no clear
  reason for leaving is available.

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Consultation

• The Graduate Leader Fund is to increase the
  number of graduates in PVI sector
• In order to help us plan to disseminate the fund
  to you can you comment on a post it note
• Do you have any concerns, as a PVI provider about
  this government policy?
• How might this fund help you to meet this target?