It is fair to say that the current challenges of recruiting and retaining staff have hit an unprecedented level. It is not only a problem in nurseries and pre-schools, but childminders are leaving the sector too.
At the same time, settings are facing substantial challenges: the pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis, rising levels of children with SEND and the expansion of early years entitlement. Just when early years settings are needing more staff, they are struggling.
In response to this, the Department for Education (DfE) is proposing reforms to the EYFS (see Guide, overleaf). The aims of these are to help manage the staffing shortage, build better-skilled teams and offer ‘flexibility’ to managers.
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