Workforce 'needs diversity'

The early years sector will face a major staffing crisis in the next five years unless it is able to recruit more older people, people from different ethnic groups and men, new research forecasts. Dr Claire Cameron of the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the University of London's Institute of Education gave the warning last week to delegates in London attending the first of four regional conferences by the Early Years National Training Organisation on planning for training. She said research into the early years workforce by her team at Thomas Coram found that many early years workers hoped to...