Creating a more flexible career pathway and simplifying the qualifications landscape have long been on the wish-list of early years practitioners and employers. Now the Government's proposed Children's Workforce Strategy appears to offer the prospect of fulfilling these desires.
The DfES document acknowledges that the existing qualifications structure is 'complex', with 'too many competing qualifications' and that the absence of common skills and knowledge 'acts as an unnecessary barrier to the development of new roles to underpin multi-agency working'.
The consequence of these shortcomings, the strategy concedes, has been high staff turnover as 'significant numbers of people leave work in children's services because they feel they are unable to progress and so make a greater difference to children's lives'.
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