Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage more men to train and take up roles in early years education.

The department’s ‘Early Years Workforce Strategy’ (published March 2017) included a commitment to set up a gender diversity task and finish group of sector stakeholders to consider this issue in more depth. The group shared its findings over the summer and we are currently considering how best to address the issue of gender diversity in the early years workforce.