The Early Years sector has, for many years, faced a harsh staffing crisis with more than eight in 10 providers finding it difficult to recruit staff and often stay in business.
This new budget presents a great opportunity for the government to fully support rewarding careers in childcare, whilst valuing and promoting the sector as an education profession. We’d also welcome new measures to encourage some of the 6.6 million working aged adults who are classed as economically inactive to get back to work as well as incentivise the over-50s who have taken early retirement and may consider returning back to employment.
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