Research and analysis

Early years workforce and business planning during the pandemic

A summary of research about workforce recruitment, retention and business planning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 28 April 2022

Applies to England

Documents

Early years recruitment, retention and business planning during the Coronavirus pandemic: a summary of findings

Ref: ISBN 978-1-83870-356-1, DFE RR1229

PDF, 200 KB, 9 pages

Details

This report summarises the main messages from 3 complementary pieces of research:

• The early years workforce: recruitment, retention, and business planning
• Survey of childcare and early years providers and coronavirus (COVID-19): wave 4
• the survey of childcare and early years providers 2021

The report explores the:

• issues and challenges the early years sector faced since the beginning of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in March 2020
• measures that early years settings took during the pandemic period

Published 28 April 2022