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Editor's View - Training the early years workforce is under the spotlight

It is fantastic that the Department for Education has asked Professor Cathy Nutbrown of the University of Sheffield to lead the review of early years training and qualifications.

Her expert panel is definitely worthy of the name, including such eminent early years figures as Wendy Scott, Julian Grenier, June O'Sullivan and Sue Robb.

Their task will not be an easy one, however. For a start, the call to strengthen qualifications and skills and to ensure progression routes has such a familiar ring to it. We have spent quite a few years undergoing a series of changes meant to do just this.

And yet we have ended up with what is still a byzantine system of courses and a need for checking on validity and ways to progress. Plus, we have a Level 3 Diploma intended to be the one course for everybody, but which seems to satisfy few.

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