Nursery World - New guide for early years settings on recruiting more men

A new guide to recruiting men into early years recommends settings hold targeted open days and keep a ‘check on sexist workplace banter’.

The MITEY (Men In The Early Years) Guide to Recruiting Men into Early Years Education, published today on International Men’s Day (19 November), calls on early years employers to take ‘active’ measures to recruit men to double their pool of talent and create a more representative workforce.

Measures proposed in the free guide, which is endorsed by the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and Early Education, among others, include:

The MITEY campaign says that ‘action is needed now more than ever’ with the ongoing early years recruitment crisis and with just 3 per cent of male early years staff in England and Wales, and 4 per cent in Scotland.

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