Immerse Early Years Practitioner Attraction & Retention

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Helping early years settings attract, retain and develop stable practitioner teams while heavily reducing agency spend through workforce assessments, attraction and retention consultancy, implementation programmes and workforce stability strategies.

16/06/2026

One of the biggest hidden costs in a nursery isn't agency spend.

It isn't recruitment fees.

It's having managers who spend more time in ratio than they do managing.

When a nursery is short staffed, managers often step in to cover rooms.

At first, this feels like the right thing to do.

But over time, something happens.

Recruitment gets pushed back.

Supervisions get delayed.

Staff development slows down.

Team issues go unresolved.

Retention suffers.

And before long, the nursery finds itself recruiting again.

The irony is that many staffing problems aren't caused by recruitment alone.

They're caused by managers being unable to focus on the activities that actually improve attraction and retention.

How much time do your managers spend in ratio each week, and what impact does it have on the setting?

👇 Share your thoughts below.

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10/06/2026

Welcome to Immerse Early Years | Practitioner Attraction & Retention

How much is staff turnover really costing your nursery?

Not just in recruitment fees.

Not just in agency spend.

But in management time, team morale, occupancy, consistency for children and the pressure placed on your existing team.

Over the last few months, we've spoken with nursery owners, directors and managers across the UK and one challenge continues to come up time and time again:

Attracting and retaining great practitioners.

Whilst recruitment is often the visible problem, we've found that many settings are stuck in a cycle of:

• Recruiting for the same vacancies repeatedly
• Increasing agency usage
• Managers covering rooms instead of leading teams
• Losing valuable practitioners to competitors
• Constant firefighting rather than focusing on growth

That's why we've launched Immerse Early Years | Practitioner Attraction & Retention.

Our mission is simple:

To help nurseries build stable practitioner teams, reduce turnover and lower recruitment and agency costs.

Over the coming weeks, we'll be sharing insights, research, practical ideas and real conversations from nursery leaders across the sector.

We'd love to hear from you:

What is currently your biggest practitioner attraction or retention challenge?

Comment below or send us a message.

10/06/2026

Welcome to Immerse Early Years | Practitioner Attraction & Retention

How much is staff turnover really costing your nursery?

Not just in recruitment fees.

Not just in agency spend.

But in management time, team morale, occupancy, consistency for children and the pressure placed on your existing team.

Over the last 12 months, We've spoken with nursery owners, directors and managers across the UK and one challenge continues to come up time and time again:

Attracting and retaining great practitioners.

Whilst recruitment is often the visible problem, we've found that many settings are stuck in a cycle of:

• Recruiting for the same vacancies repeatedly
• Increasing agency usage
• Managers covering rooms instead of leading teams
• Losing valuable practitioners to competitors
• Constant firefighting rather than focusing on growth

That's why we've launched Immerse Early Years | Practitioner Attraction & Retention.

Our mission is simple:

To help nurseries build stable practitioner teams, reduce turnover and lower recruitment and agency costs.

Over the coming weeks, we'll be sharing insights, research, practical ideas and real conversations from nursery leaders across the sector.

We'd love to hear from you:

What is currently your biggest practitioner attraction or retention challenge?

Comment below or send us a message.

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