demonstrates that for most settings the employment of graduate staff
does not lend itself to increased child:adult ratios.
The study, in partnership with the Department for Education, examined how private, voluntary, independent and maintained nurseries and academies deploy graduates and what flexibility they allow for practice.
Of the 13 case studies that NDNA compiled from the information gathered, more than half said they did not or were unlikely to use the 1:13 ratio when a graduate is present. Of these, seven were nurseries and one was an academy.
One of the case studies, Dorking Nursery School and Dorking Rural Sure Start Children's Centre, which employs nine graduates, said that while they could use a 1:13 ratio, the layout of the maintained nursery for three- to five-year-olds means they often work to a 1:8 or 1:10 ratio during graduate-led sessions.
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