Nursery World - Increasing the minimum wage to £15 an hour would be 'disastrous' for the sector

Early years organisations believe if the minimum wage was increased to £15 per hour, as per the TUC's call, it would be 'impossible' for childcare settings to remain open.

The TUC has called for the minimum wage to be increased to £15 an hour, however early years organisations believe the move would spell disaster for nurseries, PHOTO Adobe Stock

The TUC’s ‘Raising Pay for Everyone’ report details the path to a £15 minimum wage and calls on the Government to work with the Low Pay Commission (LPC) to deliver this target as soon as possible and end ‘low-pay Britain’.

In the report, the TUC calls on Government to set out a minimum wage target of 75 per cent of median hourly pay, and a plan to deliver a return to normal pre-crisis wage growth, at a level equal to or above that wages between 1997 and 2010, which grew by an average of 3.8 per cent a year.

The current minimum wage for those 23 and over is £9.50, with lower rates for those who are younger.

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