What has caught my interest lately is the Education Policy Institute’s review of the pay comparison between the retail and early years sectors. It makes upsetting reading for anyone trying to upskill their workforce.
Early years education is not the easy career path. It is not a job that you stop thinking about when you clock off. It mirrors the recruitment and retention crisis in teaching. One in five teachers expects to leave the classroom in less than two years, (National Education Union, April 2019) – and teachers have a national pay scale.
It astounds me that developing the early years workforce is so poorly thought through. The argument is so obvious I can barely put it into words, but I will try.
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