In a speech last week to the Cardiff Nursery Nurse Support Group, Jane Davidson, education and lifelong learning minister, said, 'We will be working with our partners in both the maintained and non-maintained sectors as well as early years partnerships, to expand early years opportunities to provide good-quality half-time places for every three-year-old whose parents want this.
'This partnership will ensure that suitably qualified staff, not least NNEBs, who care as well as educate will guide and nurture the children. The employment of appropriate numbers of suitably-qualified staff who deliver and maintain the highest standards is essential in giving our youngest children the best possible start in life.
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