Deborah Lawson, chair of the PANN section committee, has put forward a motion on the issue at the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) annual conference held in Buxton, Derbyshire this week.
The motion calls on the Government 'to recognise the vital role played by nursery nurses, teaching assistants and other support staff.'
Talking to Nursery World before the conference, Ms Lawson said, 'Why should childcare and early years workers be the only people within the education sector who are not paid a good salary for an excellent day's work?
'PANN has been promoting the need for a national pay and career structure for a number of years, but the childcare agenda is really expanding now. We need more people to work in childcare, but with low rates of pay there will be no incentive for skilled graduates to enter the profession.
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