Nursery World - Workforce poised for changing roles

The Government's response to the Children's Workforce Strategy will be out before Christmas, delegates at the first Nursery World conference, 'Quality in early years education and childcare', heard last week. A pamphlet will also be published with details of 'the way forward for the early years sector'.

A pamphlet will also be published with details of 'the way forward for the early years sector'.

Pauline Jones, national development officer for the Children's Workforce Development Council, outlined the implications of the strategy and the work of the council, which she said would recruit nine regional development workers. She said, 'The strategic challenges are the same for those across the children's workforce, but the early years is rightly a sectoral priority.'

She said there was a need 'to set the bar higher' by developing the role of the early years professional, increasing the number of graduate-level managers and raising the minimum qualifications of the workforce. 'In the council we will focus our efforts to develop more opportunities within the workforce and route qualifications at lower levels to enable the sector to grow its own highly qualified workforce, including multi-access points to training and the accreditation of prior learning and experience.'

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