Do you trust your nursery?
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@Sophia I was waiting for this comment to happen as if the nurseries here were better. They have higher ratios in England. I am in Scotland. How often do you think are the inspections? By checking the reports, lots of nurseires get 1 every 5 years or more.
I’m sorry you feel you need to comment aggressively like this. Sounds like you are feeling stressed and concerned. We personally have had very positive experiences and you can get all the information you need from staff and the reports and speaking to parents who send their children there.
Yes I trust mine but we don’t have higher ratios than England. Our Scottish government allowed the nurseries to reduce the ratios here when the UK government expanded funded childcare in England. So we continue to pay more and get less. But that’s another conversation. I think documentaries like that are really unhelpful to working parents who have no other choice. All of the good nurseries are never shown as it doesn’t make good tv. X
I clicked no by mistake but meant yes 100%
Also in Scotland and I'm very happy with our current nursery. My little girl had to change twice in the last 6 months as we moved and our catchment nursery was full. They made all the transitions as smooth as possible. She's autistic and very high maintenance. The girls are absolutely amazing with her. The garden is open and I can see how happy she is when I walk past. To suggest people should feel ashamed to leave their kids in nurserys that don't have the highest possible reviews is disgusting. There's always gonna be a disgruntled parent leaving a bad review. That doesn't mean it's true. If you walk into the nursery and don't feel it move on. And if you don't feel confident to leave your child with others maybe don't and homeschool? Rather than trying to put others down
All staff have to be first aid trained, at most nurseries we visited there is no screen time and I’ve never seen staff shout at children. I did visit some where some staff seemed exhausted / harassed. But mostly we found positive environments, happy parents, connected staff, no screens, all first aiders, childhood education qualifications, healthy no sugar food, great outdoors space. It sounds like you visited some appalling ones. Nobody would want to leave their children in those circumstances you described and it’s not clear what your post is trying to achieve but maybe shame parents about using nurseries? I wish you well and I hope you find a nursery that you trust.
I've worked in a lot of different private and commercial daycares and I choose to stay home with my kids. In the US teacher's make minimum wage or less so turnover is high, girls always quitting and a very low standard in hiring (will hire anyone seems like.) children need security in their relationships with the adults around them and daycares have a lot of turnover and I've seen too many people working there that didn't care/weren't even fond of kids
Wow you are making a lot of assumptions here! As someone already asked, what is the point of this post? If you don’t want to put your child in nursery, then don’t. Nobody is holding a gun to your head 🤷🏻♀️ This type of judgement and fearmongering is unhelpful and unkind.
Whereabouts in the UK do you live? We’re in Scotland and the ‘care inspectorate’ are really strict and do lots of checks. They can shut down nurseries etc. so we’ve found up here the standard of care very good. But as we’ve moved around a few times we’ve noticed the nurseries in the inner cities not having as good facilities.