Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to promote to people holding (a) Early Years Teacher Status and (b) Early Years Professional Status, the financial support made available by his Department for Qualified Teacher Status courses.

Initial teacher training leading to Early Years Teacher Status (previously Early Years Professional Status) is designed for those who wish to specialise in early childhood development and lead education and care for children from birth to five years.

For those who wish to work with primary age children the most common route to becoming a school teacher is to undertake initial teacher training leading to Qualified Teacher Status.

Information about all the initial teacher training routes and funding is available on the ‘Get into Teaching’ website at: https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/.