Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress has been made by the Early Years Apprenticeship Trailblazer Group.

All nine standards that the Early Years Trailblazer was approved to develop in March 2014 remain in the development stage. We are committed to ensuring that all standards and assessment plans are developed in a timely manner so that they can be available to employers and apprentices to use. We have therefore notified the Trailblazer that we have withdrawn their right to develop these standards.

We remain committed to supporting employers wishing to develop standards for use in the Early Years sector.