Walsall, Birmingham, Solihull, Herefordshire and Sandwell will all be taking part in the project, and have already held a number of awareness-raising sessions with private-sector childcare providers. A series of working groups has also been set up by the association. One group, on workforce development, will see Sandwell Borough Council working with Shropshire and Worcestershire councils to devise an action plan that will eventually be circulated to all 150 English authorities. Patricia Jackson, NDNA's head of regional...