Nursery World - 'Our sector is falling into deeper crisis'

There are lots of things currently keeping nursery director Caroline El-Semman up at night. An ever-diminishing pool of potential recruits, spiralling operational costs and a government that doesn’t seem to care or understand. Will it be too late when the Government finally wakes up to the problems?

'Very scary times for this country'.

Having read Professor Peter Moss’ article in Nursery World’s August issue, I felt both delighted to have my views echoed, yet sad to be reminded that nothing seems to be changing in the political view of early childhood education.

Little Jungle is a school of early childhood, based in Peckham, South London. We have been running for more than ten years, and pride ourselves in providing children and their families an environment and culture that truly respects children as equal citizens of this world.

Our approach supports children to become strong and independent learners, because we believe wholeheartedly that this is the foundation they need to make their future world a better world. Investing in children’s education from the day they are born is key. Focusing on childcare alone is not only short-sighted, but, if one must look at the economics of it, pretty bad business.

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