My mind is in gear now!

Right, they say that adversity sharpens the mind and in my case it has certainly sharpened my tongue!!

I have figured out how to get a petition going...

Department for Education: Stop discrimination against Early Years Professionals

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/department-for-education-stop-discrimination-against-early-years-professionals

This petition aims to get the Department for Education to address the plight of EYPs who cannot access the necessary training to enable them to be paid for all their previous hard work and additional study.

Will Blog Readers please pass the link to anyone they think might be interested. We need all the support we can get!

EYPs were promised that their ‘status’ would be equal though different to that of QTS. The most subtle DIFFERENCES are clearly that they will continue not to be valued as equal in financial terms or in terms of status! 

If qualified EYPs are not to be paid an equivalent rate to those with QTS then those that wish should be enabled to be fast-tracked to access free additional training to achieve QTS.

It is unacceptable and damaging to the Early Years landscape that Early Childhood Specialists are discriminated in this way and the situation should be resolved with immediate effect.