The inspectorate reports that childcare providers are struggling to recruit and retain high-quality early years practitioners and are having to employ less qualified staff and redeploy managers into frontline work to maintain services.
This, in turn, is hampering efforts to support children’s social, emotional and physical development, all of which have been affected by loss of early education and social interactions over the past two years.
The findings are from Ofsted’s Education Recovery in the Early Years briefing, published this week, which draws on more than 70 inspections and focus groups involving providers and inspectors over the spring.
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