What is the biggest challenge you’ve faced in your setting this year?
As the academic year draws to a close, we want to hear from you. What are the major challenges you’ve faced in implementing the EYFS and providing good-quality childcare this year?
If you have a specific problem in mind that isn’t listed here, please leave a comment.
- 33% said funding
- 13% said recruitment
- 0% said access to training
- 33% said not being able to spend enough time with the children
- 20% said pressures from Ofsted
Comments
said on 16 July 2016
There's always something added to our reading list , benificial but time consuming.it seems the goal posts are altered frequently.
said on 16 July 2016
Whilst the biggest challenge this year has certainly been recruiting quality staff, this has been exacerbated by the chronic lack of funding. People do not want to work in a pre-school on the minimum wage when they can work in one of three local supermarkets paying a much higher basic rate - and not have to take work home at the end of the day!!
said on 15 July 2016
I am a self employed childminder and for the last year a three year old has been claiming the funding she is due to leave me next week as she is going to school. Here in Liverpool we still haven't received the quality supplement. I think it's unfair on both of us because she hasn't benefited from any extra provision this money could of given her.
said on 15 July 2016
Our numbers have dropped because of a large intake to school last September and we are struggling to fill the spaces. Less children equals less funding equals barely covering wages and rent. We are on closure risk in the coming term if we can't fill spaces. If the funding wasn't so rediculously low this wouldn't be a problem.
Anonymous said on 26 August 2016
Lack thereof prevents COD opportunities, classroom activities (I've spent, and co tibur to spend, far too much of my own money on resources because our class budgets are tiny. When it works out at approx £13 per child for a year and decent pencils and glue take up half your budget, HOW can you afford all the extras for craft and DT etc? The government seem happy to prescribe what needs to be taught but haven't ever seemingly a. tried to fit all that in to a year or b. thought about how to pay for some of it.