Pre-school Education: Labour Turnover

(asked on 15th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of level of staff turnover in each type of early years childcare setting; and what the level of turnover is by level of qualification.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 23rd March 2018

The Survey of Childcare and Early Years Providers, England collects data on the early years workforce. The department does not hold data on those entering or leaving the profession.

The Survey of Childcare and Early Years Providers 2014 technical report (link below) provides the methodology used to calculate staff turnover on page 39: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/355085/SFR33_2014_Technical_Report.pdf.

The data from the Survey of Childcare and Early Years Providers 2016 is available on the UK data archive (link below). This is the most recent data that can be used to assess staff turnover in each type of provider the survey collects information from. The survey does not collect data that enables an assessment of turnover by level of qualification.

All survey data is available to registered users of the UK Data Archive: https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=8166&type=Data%20catalogue.

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