The Department for Education temporarily disapplied some specific staffing requirements within the EYFS where Covid restrictions prevented providers from meeting them, which the Department for Education has confirmed will end in August.
Early years settings wanting staff to work as room leaders and requiring them to have a Level 3 qualification, are finding staffing particularly hard.
Laura Milligan, who owns the 48-place Kids Corner in Metheringham, Lincolnshire with her mother Diane Ward, said while they have always struggled to recruit Level 3s, ‘this is another level’. She added, ‘We hear about nurseries closing and people on furlough – where are the qualified staff going?’
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