Rosemary Elliot, one of the owner-managers of Cairellot day nursery, says she has not had to advertise for staff for at least the past year. She puts the nursery's ability to retain staff down to its high-powered training programme, which has seen it receive numerous awards and prompted enterprise minister Wendy Alexander to celebrate its success.
Ms Elliott, who set up the 62-place day nursery with a friend, Ann Cairns, in 1993, said, 'We recruit staff from the Government's Skillseekers programme for 16- to 25-year-olds, offer them training and they stay with us. They become qualified nursery nurses, and then they can do assessor training and become internal verifiers. We believe in our staff growing with us. We are hoping to show them that you can have a career path in childcare.'
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