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  • Monday, May 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Some early years settings have found an open-door policy promotes an effective partnership with parents, says Judith Stevens

Children love their creches, but staff leave for more pay

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  • Wednesday, May 12, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Playing and books are some of the things young children like best about going to a creche, a survey by Aberdeen City Council has discovered. As part of its city-wide creche service review, the council asked children aged between two and four to draw or write about how they felt when they came to their creche. Out of 37 children surveyed, 34 said they were happy, one felt 'sad'

Childcare workforce 'neglected for years'

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  • Wednesday, May 7, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The UK's early years sector and workforce are affected by serious structural problems that are such a 'can of worms' that no British Government, including the present one, wants to confront the issues head-on, a leading early years academic has claimed. In the policy paper Beyond Caring, published last week by the Daycare Trust, Peter Moss, professor of Early Childhood Provision at the University of Lon- don's Institute of Education, argues that successive Governments have neglected the childcare workforce for decades, both in structure and conditions, and that as a result 'there has been little new thinking and no major reforms to produce a workforce for the 21st century'. The result of this, he says, is 'a mouldering can of worms, which no Government really wants to open'.

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