Sessional day care / Preschool practitioner

Current qualification accepted

Required by National Minimum Standards:

1. WJEC Level 2 Children's Care, Play, Learning and Development: Core

plus

1. City and Guilds Level 3 Children’s Care, Play, Learning and Development: Practice

or

1. WJEC Level 3 Children’s Care, Play, Learning and Development: Practice and Theory

or any of the qualifications at level 3 or above listed for sessional day care workers on this framework plus one of the following:

1. City and Guilds Level 4 Preparing for Leadership and Management in Children’s Care, Play, Learning and Development

or

1. City and Guilds Level 4 Professional Practice in Children's Care, Play, Learning and Development

Degrees:

1. University of South Wales: BA Early Years Education and Practice (with Early Years Practitioner status)

2. University of South Wales: Fd Early Years Education and Practice (with Early Years Practitioner status)

3. Cardiff Metropolitan University: BA (Hons) Early years education and professional practice with EYPS

4. Glyndwr University: Fd Early Childhood Studies (EYPS)

5. University Trinity St Davids: BA Early Years Education and Care: Early Years Practitioner Status

6. Swansea University: Early Childhood Studies with Early years practitioner

7. Aberystwyth University: BA Early Childhood Studies with Early Years Practitioner Status

8. University Trinity St David’s: HE Diploma Early Years Education and Care: Early Years Practitioner Status

9. Prifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant: BA Addysg a Gofal Blynyddoedd Cynnar: Statws Ymarferydd Blynyddoedd Cynnar (available through the medium of Welsh)

10. Prifysgol Caerdydd: BA (Anrh) Addysg Gynnar ac Ymarferydd Proffesiynol gyda Statws Ymarferydd Blynyddoedd Cynnar (bi-lingual)

11. Swansea University: Early Childhood Studies With Early Years Practitioner Status with a Year Abroad