Commenting on the publication of the Scottish Parliament's Education Committee's Early Years report (News, 15 June), Patricia Bradley, owner of the Bishopsbriggs Childcare Centre in East Dunbartonshire, said, 'We need an overhaul of the qualifications system and we need to get on with the early years workforce review consultation. In tandem, we need to look at how the private sector affords to pay professional salaries without the Treasury coming up with innovative plans.'
Mrs Bradley, who sat on the Executive workforce planning group for the early years review, said it had been almost a year since the group finished work. 'It was meant to be published at Christmas. But I think the reason it hasn't been published is because there is a national shortage of nursery nurses,' she said.
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