Nursery providers and Government should consider introducing this sort of scheme in order to improve the quality of the workforce, Professor Melhuish told Nursery World.
The study, which began in May 2004, found that the quality of childcare at Child Base nurseries on average scored better than the English private day nurseries evaluated in the EPPE study.
Professor Melhuish and his researchers used the same measures used in the EPPE study (see www.ioe.ac.uk) to analyse quality of care in 24 Child Base nurseries. The results were then compared with the 31 private day nurseries in the EPPE study.
He said, 'The study clearly indicates that the quality of childcare in Child Base nurseries where staff have received the Sound Foundations training is better than that in a representative sample of private day nurseries in England. The Child Base nurseries scored higher on 12 of the 15 subscales. And where they were not better than average, they were equal to it, or the difference was not significant.'
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