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Work Matters: Management - Ratios - Feel unlucky?
Nursery World,
26 June 2008
Like it or not, nurseries are going to have to find ways to work with the changes to staffing ratios and their links to qualification levels. Mary Evans hears what some managers think about it.
Nursery owners are seeking clarification on the operation of the 1:13 adult:child ratio, which is being introduced with the Early Years Foundation Stage in September. They are warning that it could prove unsafe and unworkable. The ratio for three- to five-year-olds, which applies to all EYFS settings between 8am and 4pm when a graduate leader is working with the children, has recently been relaxed for...
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