Nursery managers will be allowed to decide where best to deploy their staff throughout the day, effectively relaxing the rules on ratios, if Clare Tickell's recent recommendation in the Early Years Foundation Stage Review is taken on board.
While reducing bureaucracy and the opportunity to have more fluidity with staffing has been welcomed by many in the early years sector, there are some concerns that it may lead to cost-cutting by some settings, even though Dame Clare asserts that ratios must continue to be met and maintained across the whole provision. The review also states that the majority of practitioners' time should be spent working directly with the children.
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