Courses for Early Years staff are funded by Gloucestershire County Council Early Years Department. All Early Years staff working with children under five, including nursery and day care staff, childminders, and childminder assistants, can access e learning courses through the GSCP training platform.
Please visit the Early Years Website for the bespoke Early Years registration link. You can also email EarlyYearsQuality@gloucestershire.gov.uk for support.
Early Years staff who are new in post should undertake Safeguarding Children in Education. This is a 120 minute ELearning course that issues a certificate upon completion.
All newly registered childminders must complete both Level 1 and Level 2 e learning courses before attending the Designated Safeguarding Lead DSL Child Protection Inter Agency Group Level 3 training.
Early Years staff, childminding assistants, and anyone who needs a basic safeguarding children course and has already completed Level 1 should complete the Safeguarding Children Level 2 ELearning course.
Further face to face classroom training is available through the GCC Early Years team. Please see the Early Years Newsletter for more details.