While there was an "architecture" of regulatory and representative bodies in teaching and medicine, Paul Ennals told the Children Now Fund conference that some sectors of the children's workforce would continue to be undervalued, and lack identity and direction, until there was a joined-up approach.
Ennals, who is also chair of the shadow Children's Workforce Development Council, said that although the workforce was right to point out it would not be better valued until it was better paid, "if that's all we say, we'll use that as an excuse not to change".
Although fears were raised over lack of government detail on pay, he said there were precedents for linking qualifications and statutory money for employers. He pointed out that budgets for schools had risen following the introduction of "official status" backed up by qualifications for higher learning and teaching assistants.
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