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Today's early years managers need to acquire new skills. Mary Evans lists courses available to enhance your qualifications Across the early years sector, staff with childcare qualifications and experience are rising through the ranks to take on managerial roles and finding they need new skills.

Across the early years sector, staff with childcare qualifications and experience are rising through the ranks to take on managerial roles and finding they need new skills.

Providers are looking to plug this gap in their training programmes and access management courses so they can create career paths within their organisations and thus recruit and retain a high-calibre workforce. New research has found that poor management is a major reason for high staff turnover (see 'Moving on', page 10).

National Day Nurseries Association chief executive, Rosemary Murphy, says, 'The workload on managers has grown enormously in recent years and managers need to be equipped with the essential tools.'

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