The National Day Nurseries Association’s (NDNA) 2018/19 Workforce Survey for Wales highlights the challenges early years settings are facing with recruitment and retention.
It comes at a time of increased demand for nursery places due to the roll-out of the Childcare Offer for Wales, which offers three- and four-year-olds of working parents 30 hours of funded childcare and early education for 48 weeks of the year.
Staff from 118 early years settings who are responsible for employing over 1,350 staff and delivering places to more than 8,000 children responded to the survey.
They revealed the greatest challenge is recruiting Level 3 qualified staff with over 66 per cent agreeing they had faced issues recruiting at this level.
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