Saturday 7 September 2013

Early childhood educare - Commodity or pedagogy?


 
 

Early Childhood Education and Care: commodity or pedagogy?

 
A critical alliance of contemporary professionals and thinkers in early years is being launched at a reception in the House of Commons on 9 October, to highlight the importance of transformative policy for the sector and young children’s lives.  ...
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The low status of the early education and care workforce in the UK is reinforced when we consider the differences between senior early years childcare staff salaries and those of early years teachers across a number of European countries.

European country
Supervisors / managers of formal EY settings
Primary school teacher
EY salary as %age of teacher salary
Denmark
£32,800
£38,050
86%
Finland
£22,300
£28,100
79%
France
£23,950
£25,400
94%
Netherlands
£34,400
£34,000
100%
Sweden
£29,250
£23,250
125%
England
£16,850
£33,250
51%

Figure 1 Average annual salaries (GBP £) from DfE, 2013 p18
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