Letters to the Editor: Money should not be the priority with childcare
Low pay in the childcare sector leads to a high turnover of staff and this can have negative effects on children who benefit from consistency of care.
The financial model of childcare has to go: When you turn ‘care’ into a business, money becomes the priority instead of people.
The current childcare model has caused sustainability problems for services: It has caused fee issues for parents; it has left childcare staff struggling on obscenely low pay, and children have been forgotten.
