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Practitioners agree on what a framework for linking qualifications needs to achieve, says Karen Faux Overhauling the whole set of early years qualifications may represent an enormous task, but there is at least one area which has so far proved straightforward.

Overhauling the whole set of early years qualifications may represent an enormous task, but there is at least one area which has so far proved straightforward.

Getting professionals from different sectors such as health and social care to agree on what a new framework needs to achieve for the workforce has not been as difficult as the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) might have expected.

'When we took our roadshows around the country earlier in the year, we found that people were very much in agreement,' says CWDCchief executive Jane Haywood. 'They were saying they need a system that enables practitioners to develop their skills for their profession but in a way that they can be built on, if they choose to branch into a different area.'

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