Richard Dorrance, chief executive of the Council for Awards in Children's Care and Education (CACHE), said last week he welcomed comments made by the task force in its report, Local Delivery of Central Policy, published in July. Although the task force, an independent watchdog that advises the Government on regulation issues, endorsed the move to Sector Skills Councils (SSCs), to be led by employers, it expressed alarm at the way the existing processes were discarded.
The report observed that the Government's winding up of all the NTOs at the end of March had created a vacuum that would exist until the smaller number of larger, more powerful SSCs were in place. This, it said, was a problem for sectors that had not been included in the small handful granted trailblazer SSC status. Early years and playwork were among those that missed out.
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