New data published this week revealed that staff turnover in private nurseries in Scotland is shockingly high at 29% compared with 11% in the public sector.
The stats, published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) in its Movement of Day Care of Children Staff Report 2023, backs up the evidence that NDNA Scotland has been collecting about the workforce crisis in early years.
The key points of the report include:
- The public sector nurseries’ workforce has grown by almost 60% since 2016
- The workforce in private nurseries has grown by just over 2% in same period and shrunk in voluntary run providers by 8%
- Staff turnover rate is 29% in private nurseries, 21% in voluntary settings and 11% in public sector nurseries
- 26% of managers leaving private sector settings go on to work at a practitioner level in public settings
