The group will be modelled on the social partnership group that brings together government and teachers' unions to agree policies on pay, conditions and development. It will be a temporary arrangement to see whether the idea could work for the whole sector.
Among the key issues it will explore is how such a group could represent the early years sector, which has large numbers of voluntary and private sector employers that are not used to the pay bargaining processes common in the public sector.
The group is expected to give ministers its views on how the children and young people's workforce should develop longer-term later this year.
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