Save the Children's ‘Untapped Potential’ report highlights how children without access to an early years teacher are almost 10 per cent less likely to meet the expected levels of development when they start school.
The charity warns that the negative impact of shrinking numbers of graduate-level staff are being felt most in deprived areas, and urges the Government to invest ‘urgently’ in the sector to prevent children ‘falling through the net’.
It could do this via adding a 'workforce quality supplement' to the new early years national funding formula, and by first targeting deprived areas with a share of £65m a year of extra investment.
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