Tories propose adding new module to childcare training

Former Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith has recommended that a new module be added to childcare courses to teach practitioners how to identify developmental problems in children.
05-02-2010

The Green Paper from the Centre for Social Justice, an independent think-tank set up by Mr Duncan Smith, was published last week ahead of the Government's Green Paper on families.

It claims that early years training fails to take into account the importance of a child's neurological development and does not fully equip professionals to identify children experiencing parenting deficits.

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