I work in a pre-school that uses church premises. We have to set up play equipment each morning and put everything away again at the end of the session. We have to be out of the premises by a certain time, giving us no time to talk to parents. I have recently attended a Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator training course and I do not know where I am going to be able to hold meetings with parents about their children's special needs, which is a very delicate issue. If there are to be free places for all three- and four-year-olds by 2004 as the Government is intending, this issue will have to be addressed.
I work in a pre-school that uses church premises. We have to set up play equipment each morning and put everything away again at the end of the session. We have to be out of the premises by a certain time, giving us no time to talk to parents.
I have recently attended a Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator training course and I do not know where I am going to be able to hold meetings with parents about their children's special needs, which is a very delicate issue. If there are to be free places for all three- and four-year-olds by 2004 as the Government is intending, this issue will have to be addressed.
My son, who is now 21, attended a nursery within his school in London 18 years ago. I know that a lot of pre-schools do not like the idea of schools in Essex having nurseries, but I feel it is the way forward, unless we are given Government funding for new premises.
Patricia Dunmore. Colchester, Essex
