Previously support was provided by the Alliance, 4Children, the National Childminding Association and the National Day Nurseries Association, each working with their own membership bases.
Local staff from these organisations will be offered a transfer to the Alliance from 1 April.
The Alliance's development officers will give advice and training to pre-schools, nurseries, childminders, toddler groups and out-of-school clubs and link in with the work by local authority advisers in children's centres.
Jane Youdale, the Alliance's county manager for Essex, said the aim was to build a multi-disciplinary holistic team.
'Providers will continue to have a named contact who can offer support to their setting,' she said. 'However, it will mean that we can deliver more targeted, directed work using a referral process and concentrating in areas with the most identified needs. This links very well with Sarah Teather's vision of early intervention and a focus on the most disadvantaged children.'
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