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Private nurseries having difficulty finding the staff they need are following schools down the road to recruiting them from other countries. Alison Mercer reports

Private nurseries having difficulty finding the staff they need are following schools down the road to recruiting them from other countries. Alison Mercer reports

Porchea Samuels describes herself laughingly as 'either a guinea pig or a pioneer'. She is the first nursery nurse to be recruited in South Africa and employed in Britain by the Teddies nursery group. Many others are likely to follow in her footsteps, as the recruitment crisis in the UK bites and nursery chains increasingly seek to recruit qualified staff from overseas.

Porchea is a qualified teacher aide, or assistant, with 12 years' nursery nursing experience. Last year she spotted a newspaper advertisement seeking nursery staff in the UK and placed by new recruitment agency Psycad. Porchea's application was successful and in July last year she moved to London to take up a job in Teddies' Twickenham nursery, initially for one year (see box).

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