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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

The point that the noble Lord touches on is a challenging one. It is important for all people who work with young children—I think that the noble Lord is concerned particularly about settings involving young children, because there you are more likely to find a child who trips and needs a hug when they get up, and so on—that we get the training and support right for staff who work in these settings. That is why our department has a children’s workforce strategy looking at these exact questions: what are the judgments that staff need to make and the competencies that they need to have in the various settings in which they work? What is the core knowledge about information sharing and so on that all people who work with children need to have? I would be happy to give the noble Lord more information about that.