Moving on

High staff turnover has been blamed on poor pay and conditions, but bad management is just as likely to make staff quit, say researchers from the Thomas Coram Research Unit. Staff retention is recognised as critical to the expansion of the childcare sector, and poor pay and conditions have long been cited as the main reasons why nursery workers quit their jobs. But now dissatisfaction with management has emerged as one of the issues which causes some nursery staff to move on.