EYFS Qualifications Checker

For practitioners to be included in early years setting staff:child ratios, they must have a qualification the Department for Education (DfE) has classified as full and relevant. To check the qualifications of job applicants, please use the DfE EYFS Qualifications Checker. There is a spreadsheet for manual checking and also a digital tool which is a quicker way to check and receive an instant result.

Early Years Qualifications from Outside the UK

Applicants with an overseas early years qualification need an Early Years Statement to show how their international qualification matches against the criteria set by the Department for Education (DfE). Only those with a Statement, clearly setting out the Level at which their qualification has been recognised at, can be considered to count within the EYFS staff:child ratios. 

The official oganisation for asessing applications for Early Years Statments is UK National Information Centre (UK ENIC, previously UK NARIC).