Enhancing wages for early years practitioners is an issue that the childcare sector has been grappling with for some time. For many early years providers struggling to keep costs down so that childcare remains affordable, raising practitioners' pay above minimum wage levels is a hard circle to square.
It is for this reason that many early years providers have criticised proposals put forward recently by Birmingham City Council that would require all local nurseries in the private, voluntary and independent (PVI) sectors to sign the Birmingham City Business Charter for Social Responsibility if they wish to contract with it and continue to receive funding to deliver the government's free childcare scheme.
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