Following a meeting last week it was agreed to "redesign" the team for less than the current cost.
This included "disestablishing" eight early years quality and inclusion posts but creating six new posts of consultant early years professional with two of the posts being held back for a trainee scheme. The change will mean the loss of two posts with a further two waiting to be filled by trainees at a later date.
A spokesman for the council said there will be no redundancies, describing the changes as a "realignment" enabling the posts to sit alongside school improvement. "The team benefit from being part of a larger team and modelling itself more closely on that."
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