Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of early years tutors in further education settings have taken part in the professional exchange trial.

We asked the Education and Training Foundation (ETF), as the body whose purpose is to improve the quality of further education and training and to support workforce development, to conduct an analysis into the training needs of early years tutors and to provide a report for ministers by the end of March. Alongside that report, and to help inform it, we asked the ETF to trial some professional exchanges for early years tutors to enable them to share challenges and effective practice.

The training needs analysis report and a report on the outcomes of the professional exchanges will be published in due course.