Staff training programmes by early years providers are not a case of all present and correct, say the inspectors. Mary Evans looks at how they are getting into shape
Nurseries are increasingly setting up their own training provision to combat the sector's staff recruitment and retention crisis. But the conclusion of the first batch of reports from the new training inspection body is that they 'could do better'.
While the Dorset-based Tops Day Nursery is hailed in the Adult Learning Inspectorate's (ALI) first annual report as a 'world-class' training provider, others have been found wanting.
Childcare is included in the health, social care and public services area of learning, and of the 91 inspections conducted in this category in ALI's first year, only 55 per cent were graded as satisfactory or better, compared with 58 per cent for all other areas of learning.
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