Question follow-through · 91807

Pre-school Education: Career Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that early years educators can have long, fulfilling and fairly-paid careers in the early years sector.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
19 Nov 2025
Answer
5 Dec 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 17 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that early years educators can have long, fulfilling and fairly-paid careers in the early years sector.

  2. 19 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 5 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The early years workforce is at the heart of the government’s mission to give every child the best start in life and deliver our Plan for Change. The Best Start in Life strategy sets out our plans to work with the early years sector and local authorities ...

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