The accusation was made last week in a highly-critical speech by Gill Haynes OBE as she stepped down as chair of the Council for Awards in Children's Care and Education (CACHE). Speaking at CACHE's annual general meeting in London, Mrs Haynes, who had completed the maximum of six years in post, said the sector had recognised it had a champion in the previous minister for early years, Margaret Hodge, but perhaps had 'not sufficiently appreciated the power of the Treasury and the push of de-regulation in shaping the development of early years and childcare services'.
Mrs Haynes said that while CACHE believed the principle that children are entitled to a trained workforce was 'uncontested territory', it had emerged in the course of the consultation on the new national standards for daycare and childminding that this argument 'still had to be won in some important quarters'.
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