Low pay, poor quality applicants and changes to rules over GCSEs are creating a staff supply crisis, while existing staff are leaving to take better paid jobs in schools and even supermarkets, the report says.
A third of respondents said that there were not enough applicants for Level 3 jobs, which the NDNA said could hamper the Government's plan to increase free hours for three- and four-year-olds to 30 a week for working parents.
Nursery managers said the ‘most common barrier’ to effective recruitment at Level 3 was a lack of candidates meeting the requirement for at least a grade C in GCSE maths and English.
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