All our futures: Putting childcare at the centre of every neighbourhood, published last week, said that if the Government was to make its national childcare strategy a reality, it needed to raise the status, training and qualifications of the childcare workforce, as well as recruiting more men and people from ethnic minorities.
The report said, 'Looking after other people's children is an extremely responsible job and the quality of childcare workers is crucial to the quality of childcare itself.
'Childcare workers have been traditionally undervalued in the UK. Salaries and conditions of service are low, and there have been only piecemeal training and few qualifications.'
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