Plans are in hand for the childcare course to start being offered as part of a traineeship scheme under the Employability Programme (ESF). The Employment and Training Corporation is in the final stages of preparations to offer the programme between April and May this year. Academic requirements are Matsec ordinary levels in mathematics, Maltese language and English Language.
Answering a parliamentary question by Jean Pierre Farrugia (PN), Social Policy Minister John Dalli said it was also planned that those people who did not possess the necessary qualifications would be asked to sit for similar-level ETC examinations in the respective subjects they were missing. Participants would also have to produce valid certificates of good conduct.