So when the Children's Workforce Strategy was quietly placed on the Department for Education and Skills web site late one Friday evening in early April, so buried from view that you would have to know it was there to find it, the only possible explanation was that the Government wasn't altogether proud of what it had produced.
A quick glance and you can see why. After months of work, the Government has produced a strategy for the children's workforce that takes us little further forward and offers more questions than answers.
On the early years' workforce, to which the bulk of the document is devoted, a previous commitment to a graduate-trained worker in every setting is reiterated, together with questions about whether such a worker should be a pedagogue or an early years' teacher. But the strategy does not set out a vision for the whole of the childcare workforce. With no clear proposals to improve qualification levels across the board, the plans fall well short of the vision set out in the 10-year childcare strategy to deliver among the best quality childcare services in the world.
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