When I speak to early educators about how they feel about working in the sector at the moment, one word comes up time and time again: exhausted.
From the never-ending battle to stay afloat in the face of chronic underfunding to the daily fight to stay open amid relentless staffing shortages – and of course, the recent and hugely significant impact of the pandemic – the last few years have heaped immense pressure on a sector that has already faced more than its fair share of challenges.
What has been truly draining for our workforce is that despite our sector delivering quality care and education to young children even in the most challenging of circumstances, the early years remains hugely underappreciated and undervalued, both by society and those in power.
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