Adding weight to growing support for pedagogues to lead the sector, the trust said 60 per cent of the childcare workforce should be trained to graduate level as pedagogues, with a salary and benefits matching those of primary school teachers. The remaining 40 per cent should be assistant pedagogues with level-3 qualifications.
The trust laid out its vision in its response to the DfES consultation on the Children's Workforce Strategy. Although it commended the publication of the strategy, it expressed concern that the plan 'is not ambitious enough in its longer-term goals and does not set targets for a highly skilled and highly qualified workforce across the entire early years sector'.
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