Nursery World - High staff turnover, business rates, and underfunding highlighted in APPG early years event

In an online event to celebrate the sector during Childcare and Early Education Week, organised by the APPG for Childcare and Early Education, the group’s chair Steve Brine MP invited speakers to share their thoughts on the challenges facing the sector.

Staff turnover in early years settings is 'astronomical', according to one nursery group owner PHOTO Adobe Stock

Purnima Tanuku, chief executive of the National Day Nurseries Association spoke about the NDNA’s #Firstfiveyearscount campaign and shared a video made to highlight the work of dedicated early years professionals. The next stage would be launching a toolkit ‘for employers, for nurseries, and for parents to be able to encourage more people to come into the profession,’ she said.

Julie Hyde of NCFE, director of external and regulatory affairs, said that the problem was not attracting people into the early years workforce, but retaining them, with more than 110,000 people gaining early years qualifications in the past three years.

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