The online survey has been launched by the organisation, formerly the Pre-school Learning Alliance, to gather provider views and experiences ahead of increases to the national minimum and living wage on Monday 1 April.
Since the Government announced early years funding levels would remain frozen until 2020, the Alliance has called for funding rates to match the true cost of delivering childcare.
In late 2016, the organisation founded the Fair Future Funding campaign which now has more than 7,000 parents and providers signed up and calls on the Government to make childcare provision financially sustainable in the long term.
Neil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said, ‘Anyone working in the early years knows that the 1 April represents a financial cliff-edge for the sector. The maths is straightforward enough: staff costs represent around three-quarters of providers’ outgoings and they’ve increased every year since childcare funding levels were set and frozen.
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