| Rosy Apple Childcare’s Commitment to Apprenticeships Recognised
Winners of the Lancashire Apprentice Employer of the Year Award 2009, Rosy Apple Childcare hopes to win the NW Apprentice Employer of the Year Award at a ceremony to be held on 19th May at ? The NW winners will go through to the national competition to be held on 16th July 2009 at Old Billingsgate, London.
Now in their sixth year, the Apprentice Employer of the Year Awards have been designed to recognise and reward employers who are successfully using Apprenticeships to improve their business performance and tackle skills shortages. Organised by the Learning and Skills Council, awards are offered across different sizes of company and Rosy Apple Childcare is the Lancashire winner of the award for medium sized companies.
Committed to training through Apprenticeships, Rosy Apple Childcare Managing Director, Sharon Alexander is working with Lancashire Enterprise Business Partnership as a local ambassador for the scheme. Delighted to be the Lancashire winner of this prestigious employer’s award, she says, “A dynamic approach to training is essential and Modern Apprenticeships are a crucial element of our training programme. Our Apprenticeships are definitely helping our day nurseries to prosper and we have long term plans for continued development through Apprenticeships. We currently employ 13 Modern Apprentices funded by the Learning and Skills Council, 11 in Child Care and 2 in Business Administration.”
Ms Alexander adds, “We are able to offer young people access to employment at a very early stage in their careers and we support the new specialised diploma for 14 -19 year-olds. Our Apprentices train to NVQ level 2 and can then advance to NVQ level 3 and gain promotion within the company.”
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Notes for Editors
1. Rosy Apple Childcare Ltd manages three Little Achievers Day Nurseries across Preston. These are:
• Little Achievers @ Ribbleton Children’s Centre, Ribbleton Hall Drive. Established in April 2005, this nursery was the first ever Children’s Centre Nursery in Preston.
• Little Achievers at Headstart Nursery, Herschell Street was the first ever Neighbourhood nursery to open in Preston. Set up in 2002, it received an outstanding rating from Ofsted for the quality and standards of its education in October 2006. It also has the highest level Quality Counts accreditation from the National Day Nursery Association.
• Both these nurseries work very closely with Sure Start and, along with the 3rd Little Achievers Day Nursery, Chatburn Road, have Investors In People accreditation.
• All three nurseries are based in areas of high deprivation and work closely with families with the greatest needs, offering flexible high quality childcare provision that supports employment and training opportunities for parents.
2. Rosy Apple also manages Country Fields Children’s Nursery, Ramsgreave Hall Farm, Near Blackburn. Set in 120 acres of open countryside, this is a 75 place nursery for children age 0-5, with holiday and out of school care for children up to the age of 8 years.
3. Rosy Apple Childcare won the coveted Performance Through People Award at the 2008 BIBAs and the Nursery Management Today’s Business Development Award in 2006.
4. Sharon Alexander, Managing Director won the Outstanding Leadership Award from Lancaster University Management School 2006
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