We are pleased to support this commitment to ensure everyone gets paid fairly and to recognise this collective effort which has delivered a pay rise to over 64,000 workers.

At CVN however we want to go a step further. Along with our colleagues in the private, voluntary and independent sectors we are campaigning for equity for our early years staff. We cannot celebrate a system which considers it to be appropriate that staff working in PVI settings should be paid the Real Living Wage while facilitating local authorities to pay their staff some 30% more for doing the same role. Fair Work Practice? Not as far as we are concerned.