Nursery World - About Early Years - Diagnosing the sector’s ills

Staff are poorly paid, settings heavily reliant on Government funding are worse off financially, and qualification levels looks to be falling, finds Ceeda’s first About Early Years survey

EMPLOYEES’ FINANCIAL HEALTH

The childcare workforce earns, on average, around half the average hourly wage.
wage

The average sector pay rate was £8.45 per hour in summer 2017, a 9 per cent increase on the rate from Ceeda’s 2014 survey.

DfE data on pay indicates there has actually been a decline – despite the advent of the National Living Wage (introduced in April 2016). In 2013, the DfE Childcare Provider Survey reported average hourly pay rates of £8.40 in full daycare settings. Its 2016 survey, which ran from March to July 2016, reported an average hourly rate of £8.30. Dr Jo Verrill, Ceeda’s managing director, said, however, that data is not presented in the same way across the two DfE reports.

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