Low pay, change of career and promotion, and trainees deciding that childcare was not for them, are the other main reasons for leaving cited by nursery owners and staff who took part in the European Social Fund project on work and employment in the childcare sector.
These are the findings from 120 interviews at 33 nurseries in north-west England carried out by a team from the university's European Work and Employment Research Centre.
The researchers chose a mixture of private and local authority provision in urban and rural areas. Management and staff were interviewed separately.
Managers said staff left for four main reasons: unsuitability - mainly trainees or younger staff who had chosen to go into childcare without realising what was involved; financial reasons; career reasons - promotion or change of direction; and family reasons.
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