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'Set minimum salary levels'
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
9 April 2008
Minimum salary levels should be set for the early years workforce to raise standards and encourage practitioners to gain higher qualifications, an influential think-thank has recommended.
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) found that those working in private daycare settings earn an average of just £6.80 per hour, while their peers in the maintained sector earn £9.70. It said that low pay is undermining efforts to raise the quality of early years provision, blaming low qualifications and the absence of a clear career ladder for restricting the demand for higher skills, thereby holding down wages and quality. In a...
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