Nursery World - Staff Health & Wellbeing: Part 4

With half of early years staff saying work has made them ill, Charlotte Goddard looks at employee health protection

Early years practitioners love their job, but in many cases, it is making them ill. The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families surveyed 1,458 early years staff earlier this year and found the majority were happy in their work: 62 per cent said work always or often had a positive impact on wellbeing.

On the other hand, early years can be a stressful, pressured environment, and never more so than during the past 18 months. Half of those questioned said stress in the workplace had caused them to feel unwell over the past 12 months, and only 15 per cent reported not having felt stressed or unhappy at work in the past two weeks. The main causes of stress were:

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