Paul Ennals, interim chair of the Children's Workforce Development Council and chief executive of the National Children's Bureau, said: "Disabled children should be able to benefit from the full range of children's and early years services but that does place challenges on training staff across the sector."
Ennals said the Government had to invest heavily in the early years and childcare workforce or its 10-year strategy for childcare would fail.
He added that millions of pounds were needed to develop training and qualifications for hundreds of thousands of childcare workers.
There will be a consultation in the spring and the council has been given the task of developing a children's services pay and workforce strategy.
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