Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) is the post-graduate level professional accreditation programme for leading practitioners in the early years sector.
Since its launch in 2007, EYPS has become recognised as the gold-standard in early years training and is the only government endorsed accreditation for the early years workforce.
At Staunton Montessori we have three Early Years Professional staff and one further applying. This is an unusually high number of EYPs qualified staff in a setting.
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Recent national research published by the Department for Education (DfE) reinforced the importance of investing in graduate leadership across the early years workforce and highlighted the unique and pivotal role EYP’s play.
The ‘National Evaluation of the Graduate Leadership Fund‘ (July 2011) found that EYPs have a measurable impact on quality across an early years setting, over and above that of employing a graduate who doesn’t hold the status. Click here to find out more about our early years research.
