‘Provision and use of pre-school childcare in Britain’, published today, claims there is a possibility that the country could face a childcare staff shortage once the economy begins to improve as staff are attracted to better paid jobs.
It highlights how poorly paid the sector is compared to other occupations, despite an increase in qualified workers, and says low pay is a frequently cited reason for high levels of staff turnover in nurseries.
According to the UCL Institute of Education, which carried out the report in collaboration with the Family and Childcare Trust and National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA), there has already been a five per cent decrease in the number of people working in childcare since 2005.
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