The first training provider to launch Early Years Skills Bootcamps is celebrating enrolling its 250^th learner on to the programme.

Realise, the UK’s leading training provider for the early years sector, began delivering Skills Bootcamps in February and has helped dozens of learners start a new career in the sector.

The training courses, which can be completed in as little as six weeks and are funded by the government’s Department for Education, have been used as a platform to attract new recruits into early years.

Ali continues:

“Starting the Skills Bootcamp changed everything. It was a six-week online course and gave me all the skills I needed to start working in the early years sector and it certainly helped my confidence when I went to the interview.

“The training team from Realise was excellent and the course was manageable but also extremely useful and has set me up for my future career.

“I can’t wait to get started with Kiddi Caru and help children develop during those important early years.”

“The programme is proving to be extremely successful in providing a platform for people who have never worked in early years to take up a position in the sector and is playing a small part in addressing the recruitment problem the industry has faced for many years.

“The Skills Bootcamp is a real opportunity for people who are currently unemployed, in another job but looking for a new career or people who have worked in early years previously and are now looking to return to the sector.”

As well as securing a guaranteed interview, those completing the Skills Bootcamp will also have access to career coaches while the process of receiving enhanced DBS checks will begin during the training.