Purnima Tanuku, chief executive of the National Day Nurseries Association spoke about the NDNA’s #Firstfiveyearscount campaign and shared a video made to highlight the work of dedicated early years professionals. The next stage would be launching a toolkit ‘for employers, for nurseries, and for parents to be able to encourage more people to come into the profession,’ she said.
Julie Hyde of NCFE, director of external and regulatory affairs, said that the problem was not attracting people into the early years workforce, but retaining them, with more than 110,000 people gaining early years qualifications in the past three years.
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