The leader of the Early Years Alliance (EYA) has warned that early years policies announced in tomorrow’s Budget will ‘make or break the sector’.
Neil Leitch, chief executive of the EYA, said the Budget must include ‘significant and targeted investment in England’s early years sector. Anything less and the sector simply won’t survive’.
Leitch said any plans to relax ratios ‘must be quashed’.
‘It is the last thing both the sector and families need. Not only will this ill-thought-out and ridiculous policy completely fail to lower costs for parents, it will undoubtedly result in a mass exodus of experienced and highly skilled educators at a time when staff are already leaving in droves,’ he said.
