The process of getting the new structures and ways of working successfully embedded has only just begun, but what's lacking is clear governmental steering. What's more, we have been left with at least five barriers to achieving comprehensive quality early years provision in the long term. Key issues to resolve include:
* no targets and time scales have been set to achieve a fully trained workforce;
* significant cost implications remain for the national standards training requirements for individual workers;
* early years pay and employment conditions remain subject to the vagaries of market forces;
* the key retained functions for local authorities to provide training and support have been neglected for four years in favour of support for EYDCPs in England and now have to be laboriously resurrected when the Regulation to the Care Standards Act 2000 are finally laid;
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