Invest in staff first, providers tell MPs

By Simon Vevers, Nursery World, 7 October 2004

A Labour conference pledge of universal, affordable childcare for all in ten years can only be realised with substantial investment to ensure sufficiently trained and qualified staff, providers and practitioners warned last week. Education secretary Charles Clarke (pictured) followed Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown to the podium in Brighton last week to promise 'an education and childcare revolution' which he equated in importance with the founding of the NHS.

A Labour conference pledge of universal, affordable childcare for all in ten years can only be realised with substantial investment to ensure sufficiently trained and qualified staff, providers...

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