The new 'national living wage' (NLW) will be a welcome pay rise for practitioners. After all, wages in the early years sector are notoriously poor. Employers have said they support nursery staff receiving more money for the important job of looking after other people's children. But can nurseries afford to give staff more money?
The NLW of £7.20 an hour, announced in the Chancellor's latest budget, is in reality an increase in the wage floor - making it a new minimum wage for over-25s (and lower than the living wage, which is set based on the cost of living by the independent Living Wage Foundation, at £7.85 an hour).
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