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EYPs form a trade union

Early Years Professionals (EYPs) have launched their own trade union as an autonomous section of Aspect (Association of Professionals in Education and Children's Trusts).

A national committee has been set up and a meeting to discuss the union's infrastructure was held on Monday (10 March).

Helen Willis, a regional officer at Aspect, said, 'The aim of our EYP section is to provide a forum for EYPs to have a voice for the national agenda of their own roles and EYP status as a whole. The aim to have an EYP in every setting by 2015 is going to require a huge expansion and there will have to be a huge expansion in the understanding of this role and its purpose.'

She said many EYPs had approached Aspect to ask what support they could receive, and the union is the result.

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