Spring Childcare Agency

Supplying exceptional temporary Early Years Practitioners to nurseries in York, Leeds and surrounding areas

Keeping up with the ever changing staffing needs of a nursery is tough!

Whether it’s due to your occupancy rising faster than your recruitment can handle, staff sickness, dependency issues or anything inbetween, nothing fluctuates more in the nurseries than staffing. It causes stress, pulls focus away from everything that’s actually important and leaves your team feeling like they can’t provide childcare that families love

We are here to help!

Competitive Prices

With limited overheads in Spring, we can offer very competitive hourly bill rates to our clients, yet still pay some of the highest pay rates in the York and Leeds area to our carefully selected Early Years Educators

Agency cover that works for you!

High Quality Pracitioners

We are really proud to say that not only can we keep the costs low for our clients, we also have a really stringent recruitment process, ensuring you are supplied with the highest quality, most reliable practitioners

Expert Industry Knowledge

Our leadership team at Spring has many years of experience within private nurseries and early years settings, and therefore knows only too well the problems faced by the early years’ sector with permanent recruitment and staff retention, as well as the daily staffing challenges when covering staff holidays, absences, sickness, and training.

What our clients say about us

Berni Neal

Muddy Boots Nurseries - Area Manager

“Being able to rely on Spring for agency cover has been amazing. We get clear communications on who we will be getting and they are always very prompt with the responses meaning that I can plan my days and weeks effectively without unclear and lengthy waits on confirmation.With a wealth of qualified and unqualified Early Years educators available it suits our needs and ratios”


Pippa Castardo

“I have been really impressed with the service we have received from Spring Recruitment. From the initial conversations with Victoria up until the point when the staff members first arrived at our Setting the process was so smooth and well organised. It’s a huge weight off our shoulders to know that we can contact Victoria for help and support with our staffing needs. The staff arrive promptly for their shifts looking professional and always with a smile ready for the day. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Spring to other settings struggling with staffing needs”

Muddy Boots Stamford Bridge Manager

Tash Smith


Muddy Boots Gildersome Manager

As a local nursery manager we have used Spring regularly to cover staff holidays. The staff are very proactive, friendly and will use their own initiative. They have good communications skills when speaking to staff and children. They are trained in safeguarding and have a good overall knowledge of all age groups.


Nicola Duckworth

Muddy Boots Wilberfoss Manager

As a local nursery manager we have used Spring regularly to cover staff holidays. The staff are very proactive, friendly and will use their own initiative. They have good communications skills when speaking to staff and children. They are trained in safeguarding and have a good overall knowledge of all age groups.


Want to know more?

You book a discovery call

It all starts with a call, where we can get to know each other and unpack how we can help you solve your current staffing issues

We gather your requirements

Once we have fully onboarded you as a client and set you up on our system, you can start sending over your supply requirements via email or Whatsapp.

You enjoy our reliable staff

We will get to work, filling all the shifts you have with our excellent practitioners, so you can get back to focussing on making your setting the best nursery possible for your families

Fancy a free supply shift?

We have a very special introductory offer for any potential clients, a free supply shift to use at your nursery, so you can get a real example of how easy we are to work with, and how amazing our practitioners are.

To book yours book a discovery call!