A new group has been formed to look at creating a Level 2 Early Years Practitioner apprenticeship. The Early Years Alliance's director of quality improvement, Michael Freeston, has been appointed the group's employer chair, and other colleagues include members from CACHE, Kids Plants Day Nurseries, Kids Allowed, LEYF, Each Peach Childcare, Paint Pots Nursery, Happy Tree Ltd, Just Childcare, Childbase Partnership, Ashbourne Day Nurseries and Sky High Achievers. You can read about this on the Early Years Alliance website and from there you can also access a sector-wide survey on the new qualification.