Independent early years consultant, trainer and author Julia Manning-Morton used her keynote address to urge delegates to stand up and call for better pay, training, terms of employment and work environments as she highlighted the complex skills needed to be an early years educator.
‘It’s time to ask our shiny new government for investment,’ she said. ‘Investment in buildings to fulfil the needs of babies and toddlers, not just the minimum space, and investment not just in training at a basic level to get the numbers of staff needed but qualifications and training at higher levels, specifically for nought to three practitioners and, most importantly, it means investment over time to give educators and providers a chance to consolidate and embed existing effective practice and provision.
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