Dame Clare Tickell was unequivocal in her assessment of the importance of early years training in her review of the Early Years Foundation Stage in March.
In the section on workforce development, she said that the need to "create a strong, resilient and experienced workforce" had been a consistent message that had come out of the review. She endorsed the aspirations laid out in 2008's Children and Young People's Workforce Strategy that all childcare practitioners should be trained to at least Level 3 standard and that every setting should be led by a graduate-level professional. "A well-qualified and appropriately skilled early years workforce makes a real difference to outcomes for young children," she said in her report.
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