Who will work in the childcare revolution - the estimated 180,000 needed to staff the exponential rise in provision? How we recruit, train and reward these workers will determine the quality of the service: whether we muddle through, or raise the self-esteem of a devalued profession and thereby guarantee that children's first steps into the public world are a source of collective pleasure and pride.
No city in the country will be untouched by this change in the local landscape and the labour market. These issues, therefore, should infuse the era inaugurated by Every Child Matters and the re-modelling of the workforce for the proposed children's centres.
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