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Training: NVQs leave sector with skills gap, nursery chain tells MPs
By Liz Roberts,
Nursery World,
5 March 2008
The managing director of one of the UK's largest nursery chains has called for an overhaul of NVQs for the childcare sector, pointing to the 'skills gap' in evidence with newly qualified staff.
Carole Edmond of Teddies Nurseries, speaking at last week's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Childcare debate called 'Is NVQ the Gold Standard?', said that the NVQ 'does not train to the level required in order for providers to deliver the Government's vision and strategy for very young children in the UK'. There was a particular gap in understanding child development, she said, especially with under-twos, and the skills...
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