A group of experts has been set up in Wales to take the Welsh Assembly's childcare policies forward, emphasising its key role as a business advisor and lynchpin for economic development.
The group will make sure that childcare businesses are given appropriate advice, use European Structural Funds in a more strategic way to build childcare provision, and take action to expand, train and develop the childcare workforce.
The initiative, which arose out of discussions in the cabinet sub-committee on children and young people, was announced jointly by health and social services minister Jane Hutt and economic development minister Andrew Davies. The taskforce will be headed by Dr Brian Gibbons, deputy minister for economic development.
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