Welcome to early years
Our vision is for a graduate-led early years workforce delivering a high quality early years foundation stage to improve outcomes for children.
High quality early years provision can have a significant impact on children's development, performance at school and their future life chances. If all children are to benefit from a high quality early years foundation stage, the early years workforce must be professional, well qualified and dedicated.
To improve outcomes for children the government is committed to raising the proportion of the early years workforce with relevant and appropriate qualifications to work with babies, toddlers and young children.
In this section you will find information about our early years projects to make this vision a reality.