Recruiting and Retaining your Workforce
A toolkit created by the Department for Education for all those involved in delivering free breakfast clubs and wraparound childcare. Published December 2025
Resource Directory
This directory lists all the topics and resources available to local authorities on Childcare Works. It is a regularly updated downloadable PDF
Childcare Workforce Recruitment and Retention – Advice for early years and childcare providers
Childcare Works is the Department for Education’s delivery partner, supporting Local Authorities, providers, childminders and schools to deliver the expansion of the early years entitlements and wraparound childcare programme. We know that recruitment and retention of staff is one of the sector’s biggest challenges so we have created Advice for early years and childcare providers […]
Childcare Workforce Recruitment
A downloadable guide (PDF) and a recording of a Childcare Works webinar for local authorities held in August 2025
Delivering Early Years Provision in Rural Localities
A Childcare Works Action Learning Session recorded in June 2025
Hear from Barnsley’s Employees in the Childcare Sector
A collection of five videos to support recruitment and retention