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Childcare: NCB will explore a benchmark scheme

A leading children's charity has been commissioned to explore how to develop a benchmarking scheme for quality assurance in the childcare sector.

The Department for Education and Skills has asked the NationalChildren's Bureau to set up a support network for quality assurance andlook at a sector-endorsed benchmarking scheme. The move follows aproposal to scrap the Investors in Children accreditation scheme.

Sue Owen, director of the bureau's Early Childhood Unit, said theimportance of quality assurance had been highlighted in discussionsabout the Children's Workforce Strategy.

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