Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the article in Nursery World, Colleges cause confusion by stating need for GCSEs, published on 19 March 2018, if he will publish the correspondence between his Department and the Association of Colleges of their duties in relation to early years recruitment.

The Association of Colleges (AoC) does not have any duties in relation to early years recruitment.

The article stated that the colleges with incorrect information have already corrected their websites. The department has written to the AoC to ask them to remind their members of the change in English and maths requirements for entry to level 3 early years job roles made in April 2017.