The Early Years Stakeholder Group has now called on the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) to "clarify the relationship between early years professional status and qualified teacher status once and for all".
"Teachers know their terms and conditions, but at the moment there is not the same clarity for early years professionals and that's very sad," said Bernadette Duffy, head of Thomas Coram Early Childhood Centre and member of the 15-strong stakeholder group. "These people who are committed to early years deserve to be fairly rewarded."
The group was created to advise ministers on implementing the government's 10-year childcare strategy, which pledged to give the pre-school workforce equal status.
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