Nursery World - TV shows suspect nursery practices

Private day nurseries are bracing themselves for another media scare as a TV documentary using 'secret' footage is due to be aired this week.

The programme reportedly shows overworked and unqualified nursery staff shouting at children and flouting hygiene regulations.

Reporter Lizz Brown went undercover to three private nurseries in Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester and west London over a period of four months. In the programme she speaks to current and former staff from the nurseries who say that parents and inspectors are regularly 'deceived' about the standards of childcare provided.

The programme makers of the current affairs series Real Story, presented by Fiona Bruce, claim that what she found 'will disturb any parent who is using, or considering using private daycare'.

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