Nursery World - Childcarers approve titles for workforce (1)

Early years organisations across Scotland have welcomed the setting of the qualifications criteria for the registration of early education and childcare workers, announced last week by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC).

Candidates defined as providing daycare for children will have three years to achieve the relevant qualifications after registration starts, which is expected to be by early 2007.

Mairi Maciver Clark, a director of the Scottish Independent Nurseries Association, said she thought the timescales set for introducing registration and for achieving qualifications were fair. She agreed with registering workers according to the type of work undertaken, but said, 'The SSSC has missed an opportunity to use the title of early years educator. There is no doubt in all our minds that it would have been great to see the word "educator" there, rather than "practitioner".'

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