Government set to review early years workforce development, reveals Teather

9 June 2011 1 min read Janaki Mahadevan Careers Courses and training Early Years

Children's minister Sarah Teather has admitted more should be done to raise the status of early years professionals (EYPs), revealing that the government is poised to start developing a long-term strategy for the workforce.

Addressing delegates at the National Day Nurseries Association conference, Teather said that following the publication of the joint Department for Education and Department of Health early years policy paper in the summer, the government will be looking at workforce development for the next five years.

As well as responding to some of the recommendations put forward by Dame Clare Tickell in her review of the Early Years Foundation Stage, Teather said the workforce review will examine "whether the current qualifications [in the early years sector] are right, whether training includes all the right things and whether funding for qualifications should change in the future."

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