Nursery World - Minister confirms workforce strategy for next year

Childcare minister Sam Gyimah has confirmed that there will be a workforce strategy established next year.

The minister was speaking at a childcare policy event organised by the Family and Childcare Trust in London today (4 December).

During a question and answer session, Pamela Calder, from the Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network, told the minister that there was now ‘much less support for graduates and no requirement to have graduates in services’ than there had been. She asked, ‘What is your support for workforce development continuing for having graduates in services?’

Mr Gyimah said, ‘We will be publishing a workforce strategy. I’m much more interested in routes into the sector, making sure that people stay in the sector, making sure that people can develop in the sector and making sure that we have the right skills in the right place.

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