Nursery World - NDNA and EPI launch joint research project on early years workforce

The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has launched a year-long research project with the Education Policy Institute (EPI) to look at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the early years workforce.

The survey will look at the impact of Covid-19 on the early years workforce from before the start of the pandemic until June 2021

As the damaging effects of the pandemic on childcare providers will be changing over the coming months, the study will last until June 2021, with four surveys taking place starting this month and running until next summer.

The NDNA is asking childcare providers across the UK to complete the initial survey, which is now live. This will be followed by three more surveys, which will capture the evolving nature of the challenges facing the sector in England, Scotland and Wales.

The first survey requires information about staffing levels and numbers of children being cared for, both now and this time last year. It will also seek to establish a baseline snapshot of the workforce from March this year, just before the effects of the pandemic were seen.

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