On 25 February the PEAL team were invited by Sefton Council to
Firwood Cricket Club, Bootle, to host a celebration event for the
latest group of candidates gaining the City and Guilds Work with
Parents award. There were a mix of candidates who successfully
gained the single unit of the new 3599 award as well as a small
group of Childminders who had completed ‘top-up’ training to enable
them to gain a further two units of the award, completing the
qualification.
The successful candidates were presented with their certificates
by Joyce Connor, Principle Officer of the Early Childhood Unit, who
has been involved in developing PEAL since it first began in
2005.
Lynda McQueen from the Sefton Early Years and Childcare Quality
and Inclusion Service opened the celebrations and presentations
were also given by Annie Simpson from the Pre-school Learning
Alliance (who worked alongside the PEAL team, providing the
Assessment Centre for these candidates), and Joyce Connor.
Two successful candidates, Jane Marsh from The Big Picture
Nursery and Sarah Kay from Home from Home presented insightful
accounts of how the PEAL training and accreditation had improved
practice within their settings, not only for them as individuals,
but for their team too.
Following a lunch and a chance to network with other
participants of the PEAL training from Sefton Council, attendees
were moved into smaller groups and invited to share their
experience of both the training and accreditation. These
discussions provided valuable feedback for the PEAL team to enable
continual improvements to the accreditation process.
To find out more about accreditation for PEAL training, please
visit the accreditation section of the
PEAL website.