Regarding the feature on staff retention by Dr Claire Cameron ('Homeward bound', 2 August), it would seem to me that there is an anomaly for childcare workers who find themselves putting their own children in daycare so that they may in turn look after someone else's children. Perhaps a way forward could be for these childcare workers to be childminders, either attached to a children's centre or neighbourhood nursery or they may belong to a childminder network. In this way they could care for their own and other people's children, and continue to be involved in ongoing training.
Regarding the feature on staff retention by Dr Claire Cameron ('Homeward bound', 2 August), it would seem to me that there is an anomaly for childcare workers who find themselves putting their own children in daycare so that they may in turn look after someone else's children.
Perhaps a way forward could be for these childcare workers to be childminders, either attached to a children's centre or neighbourhood nursery or they may belong to a childminder network. In this way they could care for their own and other people's children, and continue to be involved in ongoing training.
At a later date when their own children go to school, they could then return to work in a day nursery, school or children's centre part-time or on flexi-time with more experience and skills to offer children and parents.
Carol Melville, Gunnislake, Cornwall
