A £1,000 incentive payment for new early years workers is set to be piloted across 20 local authorities in a bid to boost workforce numbers ahead of the government’s planned expansion of funded childcare.
The tax-free incentive comes as part of a wider recruitment campaign launched by the Department for Education to “ensure providers are in the best position to deliver the places parents need from April and September this year and next”.
It also plans to “highlight the vast array of childcare career routes and progression opportunities offering on-the-job training and flexible hours”.
Figures show that 102,480 children have been registered for places in the first phase of the expansion’s roll-out which will see eligible working families of two-year-olds receive 15 hours of funded childcare per week.
