The research also found qualifications for children's professionals tended to be designed around the interests of training providers rather than the needs of employers and services.
Keith Brumfitt, director of research and development at the CWDC, said the findings would now be used to help develop a UK-wide plan to improve skills in the children's sector.
"We are now going to work with employers to develop a sector skills agreement, The Big Deal, to address these problems," he said, adding that variations in skills' gaps in different parts of the UK meant regional plans would also be developed alongside the main national agreement.
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