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Report RE: Employment advice
Original Post
RE: Employment advice - 03-05-12 21:49
by: whmon
Yes, absolutely! The calibre of the person would determine their suitability to be placed in a ratio with children, so an apprentice could actually be in this situation. However, as Scarlett has said you could not know of an apprentice's suitability until they had actually worked in the setting for some time which means they would have to be employed in the first place as somebody 'over' the ratios.
For this reason, I don't take on apprentices. In fact, I don't take on anybody with less than a level 3. I feel it is not necessary to do otherwise. I actually interviewed today, one of the applicants was a level 6 and lived 50 miles away from my setting! (obviously, I didn't call her in for the interview, but I did ring her to explain why not.)