Nursery World - Chris Reid: 'Paper has no place in the office'

The chief executive and founder of Connect Childcare says that early years settings should only use paper for drawing and sticking.

Is your nursery reluctant to give up its accident book?

Our recent early years cyber security survey found almost half of settings (45.3 per cent) continue to log incidents in this way, despite the sector’s marked move away from paper-based record keeping.

While the vast majority of childcare businesses use secure, web-based systems, old habits are hard to break.

In nurseries across the UK, files, ledgers, forms and letters to parents are still in use. However, we argue that paper has no place in the office, in 2023.

There are four key reasons for our assertion, around the key business topics.

Data is more secure in a cloud

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