Staff changes will create risks to children and drive staff out of early years education

Responding to the government’s launch of a consultation into increasing early years staff-to-child ratios from 1:4 to 1:5 for two-year-olds, UNISON head of education Mike Short said today (Monday):“Children will be put at risk and staff will be driven out of the early education sector by this government interference.
“Workers are already quitting due to unmanageable workloads. Attracting new staff will be near impossible if ministers heap ever more responsibility on employees.