"TLC for ECD" as they refer to the Teachers Learning Centre, is a fully accredited training provider and is ETDP.SETA registered in order to provide a National Qualification in Early Childhood Development to any inpidual who has the desire to work with children or in a Pre-School. 

TLC was started by Lorraine Patterson and Marlene Allen in 2008 with it's head-office situated in Glenvista South of Johannesburg.Lorraine has 17 years experience in ECD (Early Childhood Development) and has the passion to share and facilitate her knowledge and experiences with school leavers, existing educators, educators to be, prospective aupairs, expecting mothers, day-care caregivers and many more.  their training programme is unit standard based which means that you can join at any time at the beginning of a new unit standard and it will take you about 12-18 months to complete a full qualification. You need to attend one session of facilitation per theyek and ytheir portfolio of evidence is compiled in ytheir own time. This means that you could work and study at the same time.