Nursery owners are seeking opportunities to recruit from abroad as a result of the difficulties attracting staff with the required GCSEs, but uncertainty remains over how to attract and retain EU workers in light of Brexit.
The GCSE requirement for Level 3 staff is just one of the challenges that is leading nursery owners to explore overseas recruitment, alongside their current UK strategies.
But with confirmation Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty will be triggered by March 2017 and Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s assertion that foreign workers should not be able to ‘take the jobs that British people should do’, employers and EU staff are uneasy about the future.
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