The Family and Childcare Trust wants a new Early Excellence Fund to be introduced to support the upskilling of the workforce, which it says would achieve ‘significant boosts’ in quality in early education.
Further details of the fund, including how it would be spent, are included within its new report, ‘Putting quality at the heart of the early years’.
It proposes that the Early Excellence Fund would be used to achieve the following aims:
The Family and Childcare Trust estimates the cost needed to meet these aims would be £111 million, which it says is a fraction of the £6 billion that will be spent each on the 30 free hours of childcare and the Tax-Free Childcare scheme from 2017.
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