A Department for Education-funded report published in November found that the early years sector has one of the lowest levels of male participation of any workforce in the UK.
The Men In The Early Years Guide to Recruiting Men into Early Years Education, published by the Fatherhood Institute, sets out practical measures on ways that childcare providers can recruit more men into the sector.
Encouraged by the obvious benefit of having male staff at LEYF, I have been a keen advocate for men in childcare.
I sought their views as to how we could do this as the norm and not a campaign. I asked the most basic question: why work in what can be an unusual and not always welcoming environment?
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