Pre-school Education: Average Earnings

(asked on 29th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the average pay in early years settings on their ability to fill vacancies; and if she will make a statement.


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Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 4th December 2017

The Department for Education does not set pay and conditions for early years professionals employed in private and voluntary sector organisations.

The most recent data we have on the early years sector and pay is from the 2016 Survey of Childcare and Early Years Providers Statistical First Release (SFR). The accompanying research report, which is more detailed than the SFR, is available here (the section on 'Childcare staff pay in group-based and school-based providers' can be found on pages 69-72):

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/593965/SFR09_2017_Research_Report.pdf.

Employers are responsible for staff recruitment. We do not hold data on unfilled vacancies. The Early Years Workforce strategy published in March 2017 is intended to support the early years sector to remove barriers to attracting, retaining and developing the early years workforce.

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