The decision to withdraw funding from the CWDC and for the Department for Education to take over its key functions was announced by children's minister Sarah Teather at the Daycare Trust conference.
The childcare sector reacted with disappointment and questioned whether the move showed a lack of commitment to having a graduate-led early years workforce.
Pamela Calder, chair of the Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network, said, 'We do not yet know what the implications of this will be. The Government hasn't said it is going to withdraw funding for the work that the CWDC were doing. Sarah Teather said that there was still a commitment to having a graduate-led workforce, but there has been no indication that there will be the funding to provide it.
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