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UNDER PRESSURE Nurseries and schools are among the unscrupulous employers pressuring staff to turn up despite corona restrictions. One nursery chain is apparently treating the situation as ‘business as normal’ with all staff expected in, while a school head reportedly told a member of staff to send her children to school because ‘it’s important for your future career progression’.
WELL-VERSED Mary Dickins, Nursery World contributor and inclusion expert, has also written a collection of poetry, Happiness FM, which will be published on 20 April. Ms Dickins was a finalist in the Poetry Rivals National Slam 2015 and set up the Poems not Pills project to promote the therapeutic value of poetry for health professionals and patients. Love on the internet, which has just been published in the Islington Tribune, opens, ‘Our love is too vast for an email. It can’t be condensed to a tweet. We Snapchat and Skype, but it’s merely a hype/ compared to the thrill when we meet.’
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