When it comes to solving the recruitment crisis in the early years education sector, there is one massively untapped pool of potential recruits – men. At present only five per cent of those who work in the PVI childcare sector are male, according to the latest figures from Ceeda. While this is a higher proportion than the two per cent across the sector reported by the Government in the Early Years Workforce Strategy in April 2017, the early years workforce is clearly still vastly skewed toward women.
‘We found in general men are in post for a shorter length of time and are younger,’ says Dr Jo Verrill, managing director at Ceeda. ‘This lends weight to the idea that more men are coming into childcare recently, but it could also indicate that men come in and go out quickly. We also need to look at whether these men are working directly with children or whether they are in support roles.’
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