Stirling Council has published a practical guide, Children as Partners, which advises that nursery-age children can be consulted on a range of issues such as curriculum planning, staff deployment and purchasing resources - and that nurseries must be prepared to act on what they find out. It follows a two-year-pilot study undertaken in keeping with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which says children's views should be taken into account.
Terry McCabe (pictured above), co-author of the report and headteacher of Park Drive Nursery School in Bannockburn, which took part in the study, said, 'We can't believe we went on for so long thinking we knew what children felt without actually asking them, and now we feel we can never go back.'
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