The early years workforce: A comparison with retail workers

High quality early years education can have a considerable impact on a child’s life chances. Research also shows that a stable, highly-skilled, childcare workforce is crucial to improving child outcomes. Despite this, the childcare sector faces great uncertainty over recruitment and retention, with growing reports of workers switching to the retail sector, in order to secure more favourable working conditions.

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