Its new report, Working for the future: re-imagining the children's sector workforce, argues that current workforce reviews focus on specific groups of workers while excluding others. For example, the report says, the Scottish Executive's Early Years Child Care and Workforce Review includes nursery nurses but excludes pre-school teachers.
It points out that such an approach fails to reflect the Executive's commitment to the creation of integrated children's services and a joined-up workforce.
While two-thirds of social workers and almost all teachers, nurses and midwives have qualifications at levels four and five, only 8 per cent of childcare-related occupations have qualifications at this level.
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