Nursery World - First thoughts (1)

Richard Dorrance chief executive, CACHE: 'There are 55 employer organisations within the sector, and they all need to be involved. I think the sector can either be reactive or proactive: I think if we were starting with a blank sheet of paper, we wouldn't be going where we are going now... I think there's a great danger that we react because of the time pressures, and think we'd better be an SSC tomorrow or we'll have missed the boat. We do have too many different organisations. The communication is bad in the sector and it's going to continue to be bad unless there's a single body working for children and young people.'

'There are 55 employer organisations within the sector, and they all need to be involved. I think the sector can either be reactive or proactive: I think if we were starting with a blank sheet of paper, we wouldn't be going where we are going now... I think there's a great danger that we react because of the time pressures, and think we'd better be an SSC tomorrow or we'll have missed the boat. We do have too many different organisations. The communication is bad in the sector and it's going to continue to be bad unless there's a single body working for children and young people.'

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