Report RE: analogy- owners

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by: Annie

 So does mine. The problem is in trying to provide care as a business. It's the same for hospitals, care homes, home helps and childcare. The case in point is that it is the children who are the receivers of the service so how does increasing the ratio improve things for them? The fact is that many years ago when I worked in Social Services the cost of a childcare place was at least double what it is today because staff were paid local authority rates etc.  The private sector has to set a rate people can afford and then try to come up with the quality of service people expect and this usually means lower wages, using trainees or running understaffed at some points. I agree that there are times when supervision is fine with a lower staff ratio and I would always maintain that numbers alone do not assure the manager that the supervision will be appropriate. I know that when there are a full complement of staff, often less gets done. Human nature. Incidentally, having worked in catering when I was a student, the wages there are very low and the competition is stiff, hours long so how much a beef wellington?

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