Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect on pre-schools of the removal of funding for training of pre-school staff to level 3 standard.

Funding for training of pre-school staff to level 3 has not been removed.

Employers can access up to £6,000 for level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship training and employers are only required to pay 5% of the costs of training and assessing an apprentice. A link to the apprenticeship standards for Early Years Educator apprenticeship training can be found here: https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/early-years-educator/.