Childcare has always been associated with a high staff turnover. Last year, a survey from the Government’s apprentice ‘trailblazer’ group found more evidence to back the stream of anecdotes that early years recruitment is less than healthy, because GCSE requirements for Level 3 childcare courses are forcing yet more practitioners out of the profession.
Taken last November, the survey found a third of settings had at least two Level 2 employees leave over the previous year, with 58 per cent saying this was because they didn’t think they would be able to achieve the requisite English and maths GCSEs to progress to Level 3. It also found that 29 per cent of managers said their Level 3 vacancies had remained unfilled for at least six months. This comes on top of awarding body CACHE saying that registrations for Level 3 courses dropped by a massive 44 per cent between 2013-14 and 2014-15.
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