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Early years workforce: 'Forgotten key workers' driven out by low pay in increasingly volatile sector

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

| Nursery World

One in 8 childcare workers is paid less than £5 an hour and many are forced to take on second jobs to make ends meet, a report commissioned by the Government’s Social Mobility Commission has found.

Support staff pay body's fate is still uncertain

News

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

| Nursery World

The fate of the body responsible for negotiating the pay and conditions of nursery nurses and teaching assistants remains unclear after the Department for Education confirmed it was one of the quangos still under review.

Analysis: Rhetoric fails to match reality

News

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

| Nursery World

Changes to how the early years workforce can develop will impinge on the quality of provision available to young children, argues Pamela Calder.

Workforce Strategy, Part 2: Level 3 - Levelled out

Features

Monday, September 4, 2017

| Nursery World

With the number of Level 3s completing courses falling by more than half, the sector is still in the grip of a recruitment crisis. What can the Workforce Strategy do, asks Charlotte Goddard

Plans and providers unveiled for new EYP programme

News

Monday, October 17, 2011

| Nursery World

The Children's Workforce Development Council is funding a total of 7,200 places on the new Early Years Professional Status programme between 2012 and 2015, with expectations of a large additional number of self-funded candidates across the programme's lifetime.

Private nurseries fear they will go unheard in Nutbrown qualifications review

News

Monday, November 28, 2011

| Nursery World

The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has expressed concern that the views of private day nurseries may not be taken into account in the Government's review of early education and childcare qualifications.

Government abandons GCSE rules for Early Years Teachers

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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

| Nursery World

Early Years Teachers will no longer need GCSE English and Maths at grade C and above to count in Level 3 workforce ratios, following yet another Government revision to qualification requirements.