Dr McNeil said one way of achieving his aim would be to implement a single system of healthcare throughout the primary, community, secondary and tertiary hospital sectors, so that in the next 10 to 20 years each area can experience thesamelevelofquality.
They are expected to outline a rise in the number of children a child minder can care for and changes to their qualifications in an attempt to improve the number of child minder places at thesame time as maintain a high levelofquality, sources say.