AgentTink
22-03-2013, 12:51 PM
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Marg Randles, managing director of nursery chain Busy Bees, said the company will not be changing staff-to-child ratios in its 213 nurseries.
This is despite Busy Bees being cited by the Department for Education (DfE) as an endorser of its plan to allow early years professionals to look after more children as part of its More Great Childcare (https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/standard/publicationDetail/Page1/DFE-00002-2013) strategy.
At the launch of More Great Childcare in January, John Woodward, the chief executive of Busy Bees, was quoted by the government as saying that the early years sector would “welcome and embrace more flexibility which could be used as they feel appropriate”.
Pressure mounts over changes to childcare ratios | Children & Young People Now (http://www.cypnow.co.uk/cyp/news/1076707/pressure-mounts-changes-childcare-ratios)
Marg Randles, managing director of nursery chain Busy Bees, said the company will not be changing staff-to-child ratios in its 213 nurseries.
This is despite Busy Bees being cited by the Department for Education (DfE) as an endorser of its plan to allow early years professionals to look after more children as part of its More Great Childcare (https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/standard/publicationDetail/Page1/DFE-00002-2013) strategy.
At the launch of More Great Childcare in January, John Woodward, the chief executive of Busy Bees, was quoted by the government as saying that the early years sector would “welcome and embrace more flexibility which could be used as they feel appropriate”.
Pressure mounts over changes to childcare ratios | Children & Young People Now (http://www.cypnow.co.uk/cyp/news/1076707/pressure-mounts-changes-childcare-ratios)