The assurance was given last week by Richard Dorrance, chief executive of the Council for Awards in Children's Care and Education (CACHE), after some nursery nurses who qualified as NNEBs around 20 years ago had expressed concerns that they were being expected to re-take their qualification to bring them up to current Level 3 status.
Mr Dorrance sought to reassure childcarers that this was not the case. He said, 'In principle, any childcare qualification that pre-dates the current child protection legislation, children in special educational needs and the Foundation Stage in the national curriculum is obviously to an extent out of date.
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