Nursery World - Training Today: Workforce Strategy

The long-awaited workforce strategy needs to tackle staff recruitment, retention and underpin quality provision. Is it the blueprint the sector needs? asks Charlotte Goddard

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When the early years workforce strategy was finally released on 3 March, 14 months after it was first announced, it was greeted with a sigh of relief. It contained the decision to scrap the need for Level 3-qualified staff to hold GCSEs in English and maths – a response to a vigorous campaign from across the sector since the requirement was introduced in 2014.

‘The main positive impact of the strategy for us is on GCSE requirements, and the introduction of functional skills, both as training providers and as employers,’ says Julia Mason, director of operations at nursery chain Children 1st. ‘When the GCSE requirement was in place we had a much smaller pool of candidates to choose from.’

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