Report RE: RE: analogy- owners

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by: whmon

I did not say that the ratios should be increased. I said that the government, who sets the ratios should help fund it.

When you worked for Social Services the fees were more expensive because of the wages paid by the government. The private sector has tried to compete, not by lowering wages, but by the owner working without a wage. But why should I and my ilk, have spent all of my life studying to multiple degree level and then getting well paid jobs in order to invest all of that hard-earned money in buying a nursery simply to fund jobs for others, and work without a wage? The government should be helping a sector that it needs.

Please don't think that the private sector runs by using trainees or by being understaffed. We are private busnesses and consequently try to beat the competition through sheer quality like any other business.

How much for Beef Wellington? Perhaps I was a little over confident in the expectation of people being able to understand the analogy. You mention hospitals, care homes etc. So - can you imagine the government demanding that Doctors, nurses, dentists, home helps, etc only being able to deal with 3 people per day?

What about firefighters, how about hairdressers only being able to do 3 customers per day, what about shop assistants - only 3 customers. Do you know of any other profession or job that demands this constriction?

Children need the ratios. The Government need childcare. The Government have set the ratio. Family sizes have decreased. My grandmother could have looked after 3 children on each knee. The ratio is political. The private sector will always be the scapegoat under a Labour Government.

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