A report, The Learning We Live By, published by Capacity, says that such training is necessary to improve partnership with parents and to encourage more community ownership of children's centres and schools.
Capacity's director Margaret Lochrie, a former head of the Pre-school Learning Alliance, said that the proposed occupational standards for the reformed children's workforce were 'silent about poverty'.
She said, 'In the same way that those working in schools, nurseries and other services have access to equal opportunites training, training on the impact of poverty would be appropriate.'
She added, 'On a practical level, an understanding of this issue would avoid all kinds of misunderstandings - for example, that parents with no credit on their phone are unlikely to return calls, or how children's experiences are affected by poverty and exclusion.'
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