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Nurseries in England say new rules have reduced care to ‘crowd control’

Nurseries in England say new rules have reduced care to ‘crowd control’

16 September 2024  

The first study into Tory shake-up of childcare shows staff are overwhelmed

The first major study into the Conservatives' controversial shake-up of childcare has revealed that nursery staff are often doing more "crowd control" than education, because of the increased number of children they are looking after.

Since September last year, nurseries in England have been allowed to increase child-to-staff ratios, so one adult now looks after five two-year-olds rather than four. The change was intended to help deliver the party's pledge of 15 hours' free childcare a week from this month for working parents of children aged from nine months to three years.

But according to the study, shared with the Observer, a third of staff (32%) at nurseries that followed the new guidelines feel that quality has been hit.

The survey of 152 early-years settings by researchers at Northampton and Nottingham Trent universities, heard from staff who felt they were now "simply firefighting", with some admitting that arrangements for two-year-olds were no longer safe.

The findings will increase pressure on Labour, which has committed to double the number of free hours a week to 30 next September. Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has promised a "sea change" in early-years education, but critics warned that the situation will get worse unless nurseries can hire more staff.

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