The call was made last week by the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) after a day nursery in Cambridgeshire reported that two private schools had been urging parents to take their children out of the nursery and enrol them at the school instead.
Rosemary Murphy, NDNA chief executive, said, 'It is disappointing to hear of any independent school disrupting the continuity of care of young children by using strong-arm tactics to pressurise parents into changing their childcare and early education arrangements. We hope that schools that resort to these methods will be a small minority.
'We would expect the well-being of children and their social and emotional development to be the top priority of any quality setting caring for under-fives.'
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