Nursery World - Costs: Part 5 - Temporary Staff

Managers faced with staff shortages are reporting an increasing need for bank and agency staff. How can they be managed to help keep costs down? Karen Faux reports

Use of temporary staff is now seen less as a ‘fire-fighting’ strategy for emergencies and more as an everyday necessity to keep nursery businesses running smoothly.

The drop in new candidates coming through as Level 3 early years educators – which has reduced by 30 per cent in a year, according to analysis by Cache – has intensified recruitment challenges and compounded the need for using bank and agency staff as a way of providing cover. While agency staff are employed directly by an agency, bank staff are a pool of people who tend to be employed directly by the nursery on an ad hoc basis.

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