Nursery World - Nursery Chains: Management

If a bright idea brings benefits to one setting, you want to spread the word. Melanie Defries explains how some chains do just that.

Many nursery chains feel that sharing good practice across their nurseries is vital for raising standards and ensuring consistent quality.

Now one chain has introduced an initiative aimed at making the sharing of good practice that bit easier. Managers and practitioners are swapping settings for the day to glean ideas for activities and initiatives and spot things that could be improved.

Kids Allowed, which has three settings in Manchester - two of which have been graded outstanding by Ofsted - introduced the 'centre manager swap' scheme 18 months ago, after some managers began swapping settings on an informal basis and found the experience inspirational.

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