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CACHE bids for early years skills council

Early years employers are being urged to back the sector having its own skills council to replace the Early Years National Training Organisation, which will be axed next March. CACHE chief executive Richard Dorrance, who is also the chief executive of the existing NTO, has begun a nationwide campaign to secure the support of 225,000 employers and self-employed people in the sector. He said CACHE, which is formally responsible for the NTO, would be launching the bid.

CACHE chief executive Richard Dorrance, who is also the chief executive of the existing NTO, has begun a nationwide campaign to secure the support of 225,000 employers and self-employed people in the sector. He said CACHE, which is formally responsible for the NTO, would be launching the bid.

Education and skills secretary Estelle Morris said the new skills councils due to replace the NTOs in a variety of sectors would 'build on the best of the NTOs', but there is no guarantee that existing NTOs will be replaced by a skills council. If the CACHE bid fails, the early years sector will come under the Sector Skills Development Agency.

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