Nursery World - To The Point - Cuts by the thick skinned

I have recently moved to Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council in South Yorkshire, to a role as head/headteacher of an integrated children's centre and nursery school.

I write 'nursery school' and 'headteacher', but rather impressively the authority, governing body and community refer to the setting as a children's centre and the headteacher as a head of centre, despite being a state-funded nursery school and fully integrated into the educational establishment in the same way as any primary or secondary school.

This progressive attitude is because Rotherham has embraced, nurtured and developed a learning community approach which recognises, not just the critical contribution that children's centres make to school attainment, but also, the intrinsic cost-benefit and the unassailable value of embedding children's centres into the very core of those trusted establishments - namely, schools.

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