What are the barriers to early years staff (including childminders) recruitment and retention and how can they be addressed?

Background

Our goal is for the early years sector to provide the foundations for children to have happy, healthy and successful lives, and to enable parents to work. The sector has some challenges in common with our other sectors but it faces a different local and systemic context. We are interested in evidence that will help us enable a healthy and sustainable early years market which maximises the valuable outcomes of the sector.

Next steps

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Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Df E Areas of Research Interest 2024

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    The project addresses the barriers to early years staff recruitment and retention in the context of childcare provision.

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    Why might this be relevant?

    The project addresses the barriers to recruitment and retention in the early years sector and proposes solutions through quality management.

  • AI-powered childcare matchmaking

    Borne out of our passion for modern, intuitive, and comprehensive solutions to the challenges of early parenthood, **our vision for this project** **is a new way of connecting parents with private child carers through a ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

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    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on connecting parents with child carers through AI-powered matchmaking, which partially addresses the question of recruitment and retention.

  • The impact of COVID-19 on the provision of Early Years childcare in England and Wales

    Early Years (EY) childcare is critical to the UK economy and society given its positive impact on child development and wellbeing. Without the provision of formal and informal childcare, parents will not be able to retur...

    Funded by: COVID

    Lead research organisation: University of Leeds

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project specifically addresses the impact of COVID-19 on early years childcare provision, including barriers to recruitment and retention.

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