Special report: Implementing the EYFS - Feel the squeeze

Nursery World, 26 July 2007

With the EYFS adding to pressures for better trained staff, financial stresses are pushing early years settings from the other direction. Mary Evans hears why.

As the childcare sector prepares for the Early Years Foundation Stage, some nursery owners are worrying that it will add to their financial pressures at a time when they are already struggling. The scale of the task facing the sector has been underlined by the Westminster Children's Society. It is enthusiastically embracing the EYFS and combining its implementation with a programme of workforce development across its 15 nurseries, which together will cost more than £100,000....

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