Analysis

Five key pandemic lessons that can make childcare businesses stronger

2 mins read Early Years Management
The early years sector has a diverse range of service providers – from home-based childminders with an annual turnover of £25,000 through to private-sector run super-chains of nurseries employing thousands of staff in dozens of sites across the country – trying to navigate a complex regulatory and policy landscape, which changes regularly.
Providers need to identify business risks. Picture: Krankenimages.com/Adobe Stock
Providers need to identify business risks. Picture: Krankenimages.com/Adobe Stock

This all makes giving business support a very tricky prospect for companies like Hempsall’s. Some settings are sophisticated and organised businesses needing to satisfy their investors. At the other end of the spectrum are community and charity focused providers – with the rest somewhere in between.

When the Department for Education released a contract to develop a business support tool for use in 2021, we felt providers of all sizes needed help to manage a childcare business through the challenges of the pandemic. We developed the “Business Map” for early years providers to use with children from birth to age five years. We based its structure on our 30 years of experience, combined with work from hundreds of sessions we delivered throughout 2020 helping providers make sense of their responses to the effects of Covid-19.

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