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Original Post
analogy- owners - 23-03-08 22:46
by: whmon
An interesting analogy: Our nursery charges £31 per 8 hour day for babies and £29 per 8 hour day for 2 year olds. As you know, the staff ratios are 1-3 and 1-4. These prices, £31 and £29, are about what you would expect to pay in an average restaraunt.
Getting back to the restaraunt analogy - can you imagine if restaraunt owners were told by the government that the staff in their business could only serve 3 clients within an 8 hour period if they are serving e.g a steak dinner, and only 4 if they are serving Beef Wellington?
What would happen is that overnight, all of the restaraunts in Britain would close down.
I am not suggesting by any means that the ratios should change. What I am suggesting is that the government, who wants parents to get back into work should be actively helping day nurseries to fund childcare. I seriously can't think of any other business that the government is trying to destroy.