Nursery World - Nursery Management: Recruitment

A drop in the numbers applying for jobs, and in the quality of
candidates, is leaving the sector floundering. Hannah Crown
investigates.

Fewer people are applying for jobs in the sector, leaving nursery managers facing a 'shocking' shortage of qualified staff, Nursery World can report.

The recruitment crisis currently gripping the early years has hit such a fever pitch that recruiters are reporting significant drops in application numbers (see box) while employers are now simply unable to fill vacancies with appropriately qualified staff.

Hilary Sharples, director of quality at Ashbridge Independent School and Nursery, says she went to four different apprentice providers to try to source ten Level 3 apprentices, but was unable to find any with the GCSEs needed for them to count in ratios.

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