How strikers have alienated parents

Nursery World, 25 March 2004

The problem of special needs children being involved in the nursery nurses' strike in Scotland is one that Unison seems to prefer to ignore. The fact is that in some areas, including Edinburgh, nursery nurses are employed as support staff in special schools - not nurseries. This means that children and young people aged five to 18 are being deprived of their statutory full-time education, not nursery education.

The problem of special needs children being involved in the nursery nurses' strike in Scotland is one that Unison seems to prefer to ignore. The fact is that in some areas, including...

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