It published its response to the consultation on the Children'sWorkforce Strategy, which came out last year, clarifying many of theideas in the strategy and confirming how it intends to spend the 250m Transformation Fund (see News, p2).
The vision of the Government and of leaders in the children's servicessector is absolutely dependent not only on recruiting a lot more caringand dedicated people, but also on raising standards of training andpractice, qualification, motivation, and status.
But on the day children's minister Beverley Hughes announced these nextsteps, several newspapers carried quotes by Steve Biddulph, whose bookson child rearing sell millions worldwide. Biddulph's latest book iscritical of nurseries, which he has called "a nightmare of bewilderedloneliness" for babies and young toddlers.
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