Nursery World - Safeguarding in 2024 part 3: How to ensure new early years educators develop essential skills

Rachel Buckler on strategies for supporting an emerging workforce to keep the children in their care safe.

Working with a new and emerging workforce can be both rewarding and challenging.

Leaders and managers will reflect upon the wealth of opportunities they have to develop and grow a new generation of early years educators and practitioners through various graduate pathways and apprenticeship schemes.

Many will also recognise the challenges that come with onboarding new employees who as students have yet to gain important knowledge and skills that enable them to be effective and safe practitioners.

With a growing need to address a shortfall in workforce capacity, it is vital that we think about the implications of securing effective and safe care for children by developing our up-and-coming cohorts of new learners.

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