Trouble syncing Wi-Fi network passwords via Keychain

I'm having a few issues getting my iPhone, iPad and my MacBook Pro to correctly sync Wi-Fi network passwords via iCloud Keychain – it's sporadic at the best of times.
I've had this happen in the past and sometimes resetting the keychain (as well as the saved networks on my devices) fixes the issue. However, at present, I do not wish to force a reset as I do not think it should be necessary for the functionality to work.
I recently joined a friend's Wi-Fi network at his home on my iPhone. Hours later, my iPad (a cellular model) hadn't connected to the network; I had to manually re-enter the details. Additionally, when I got home, I noticed my MacBook Pro didn't list the network in Keychain Access or the Network pref pane. All the devices run the either OS X 10.10.2 or iOS 8.1.3. iCloud Keychain is correctly setup on all three devices, and I can confirm credit card information and logins sync fine – I've just created a new login, and a fake credit card and this propogated to the other two devices. Deleting it on another correctly removed it from the original on which it was created.
Any ideas here? Can't work out why Safari data syncs, but not Wi-Fi information.

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