Apprentice Blog
National Careers Week
National Careers Week (NCW) is a brilliant annual opportunity to spotlight careers, inspire ambition and make careers guidance part of everyday conversations in schools, colleges and workplaces across the UK. This year NCW runs from 2nd to 7th...
Workforce Challenges and invisible inclusion
Removing Barriers, Raising Outcomes, and Seeing the Child Across early years settings, families and practitioners alike are feeling the strain. Workforce shortages, increasing complexity of need, and rising expectations around accountability...
National Career Development Month
Celebrate National Career Development Month by supporting early years staff with training, apprenticeships, flexible working, and professional growth.
Master Difficult Conversations: Tips For Addressing Sensitive Issues
Have you ever needed to have a difficult conversation with a parent or carer that you were dreading? Perhaps you needed to tackle a child’s behaviour, an unpaid bill, or a safeguarding concern. Whatever the situation, every early years manager...
Off-The-Job Training: Essential Information
We know that in our world of early years education, apprenticeships provide a crucial pathway for developing skilled, knowledgeable childcare professionals. The wonderful thing about apprenticeships is that they blend hands-on experience with...
Retail To Early Years Educator: Parenta Has Been Featured In Nursery World
Parenta is proud to be featured in Nursery World magazine, highlighting the inspiring journey of one of our learners, Jade Stevens. From a retail job to becoming a Level 3 Early Years Educator, Jade's story showcases her dedication and success....
10 Tips to Resist Influencers’ Temptations and Control Spending
Have you ever bought something you didn’t need, would never wear/use or that didn’t suit you just because you couldn’t resist? We all do it, from a chocolate bar at the checkout to the latest trendy gadget, we have all bought things we don’t...
Apprenticeship Provider Of The Year: Parenta Wins VTCT Award
VTCT Large Apprenticeship Provider Of The Year Parenta Training, the UK's largest provider of childcare apprenticeships, is proud to announce that it has been named the VTCT Large Apprenticeship Provider of the Year. This prestigious award...
Parenta’s Solution To The Early Years Staffing Crisis? A New Fast-Track Level 3 EYE Apprenticeship
The early years sector is facing a significant challenge; an additional 40,000 Level 3 qualified staff will be needed in the next three years to meet the increased demand from the Government's latest "free" offering. While this initiative is a...
Level 3 Childcare Apprenticeships The Ultimate Game-Changer
As childcare professionals, we strive for excellence and seek to cultivate top talent in our settings. While experience is invaluable, formal qualifications enhance our capabilities and empower staff for career growth, raising childcare...
Unlock Your Future: Level 2 Childcare Apprenticeship Success
When you choose to kickstart your career in childcare and embark on a Level 2 Childcare Apprenticeship, it's more than “just a job” and more than “just a childcare course” – it's a transformative adventure that brings so many benefits to both...
Apprenticeship Success: Ways to Lead in Childcare
In the ever-changing world of early years education, continuous professional development is key to staying ahead and making a lasting impact. If you already hold a position such as practitioner, deputy, or manager in a childcare setting, taking...
Mastering Time Management in Early Years – Get More From Your Day
Not surprisingly, the phrase ‘time management’ is used frequently in the early years sector; we work in an industry which is infamous for its time constraints with so many practitioners striving to make those precious hours in one day go a...
Celebrate National Apprenticeship Week!
Updated: January 2025 National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) is coming, and this year, it is worth spending a little more time than usual looking into apprenticeships since the government recently announced several changes to the scheme that could...
Supporting apprentices with peer-on-peer abuse
Safeguarding Apprentices: Navigating Peer-on-Peer Abuse in Educational Settings The issue of peer-on-peer abuse and safeguarding is fundamental to everything we do in education, whether for our early years children or our older apprentices who...
Encouraging male apprentices into early years
Fostering Gender Balance: Empowering Male Apprentices in the Early Years Workforce If you have been reading our magazine for a while now, you will know that we occasionally revisit the problem of the gender imbalance in the early years...
National Apprenticeship Week
This month sees the return of National Apprenticeship Week (NAW), and this year will be the 15th week-long celebration of everything to do with apprenticeships.
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
It’s hard to imagine but in this day and age, there are still two women each week who are killed by a partner or former partner in England and Wales. In the Northeast, the area with the highest recorded rate of domestic abuse, there are an...
Celebrate ‘all things apprenticeships’ during National Apprenticeship Week
The annual National Apprenticeship Week (NAW2021) is upon us, 8-14th February, and with it, comes a great opportunity to celebrate ‘all things apprenticeships’. Apprenticeships allow individuals to earn while they learn and can lead to new and...
National Apprenticeship Week 2020
We love to celebrate our apprentices and their achievements here at Parenta. There’s no better time than National Apprenticeship Week to share with our readers what it means to our learners to complete a childcare course with Parenta Training....
National Apprenticeship Week is here!
This week-long celebration, organised every year by the National Apprenticeship Service, aims to unite everyone who is passionate about apprenticeships, to encourage more young people to choose this path as a first step (and often fast-track) to...