Our recent news story about a survey showing that well over half of early years professionals were considering leaving their jobs prompted many heartfelt responses from our readers.
Workload was cited in the survey as the main reason for people wanting to move away from early years employment, well above those who cited low pay or lack of quality support.
Interestingly, it was the paperwork aspects of the job that most concerned those who responded to the story, and this was common to managers running a nursery and the practitioners.
One said, ‘I wonder why we have to do all these learning journals and summative assessments when it is not a statutory requirement to attend a nursery or pre-school.’ The paperwork ate into the staff’s family time, she said, meaning that quite a few had left.
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