The Edinburgh Childcare Partnership's Workforce Development Initiative, backed by the Scottish Executive, carried out research which showed that 47 per cent of the city's 3,500 childcare workers needed training.
The SSSC has set a deadline of 2006 for childcare workers to be registered and 2009 when they must either have obtained or be working towards a qualification.
Welcoming the European funding, which will allow staff access to free training and bursaries for some courses, Childcare Partnership manager John Heywood said, 'It is important, not only for the childcare sector but for effective economic growth within Edinburgh, that there is a stable and qualified childcare sector.
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