Nursery World - Workforce strategy, part 10: sector-led quality improvement

Analysing the final section of the Workforce Strategy, Charlotte Goddard discovers that funding promised in the document is not all it seems

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Few disagree that the Early Years Workforce Strategy provides a comprehensive analysis of the barriers to workforce progression in the early years – but some say there isn’t enough funding to back it up. In the section on quality improvement, the dedicated early years funding promised in the strategy is not now dedicated.

The strategy promised up to £3m funding in 2017/18 and 2018/19, and up to £1.5m in 2019/20 to expand relationships between schools and early years providers at a local level, in order to raise standards of teaching and learning. However, according to Lesley Curtis, head teacher of Outstanding-rated Everton Nursery School and Family Centre in Liverpool, and National Teaching School Council representative with a responsibility for early years, this funding is not now ringfenced for the early years.

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