PAT calls on Labour to register nannies

If the Government wants all childcare workers to be trusted then it must register nannies, delegates at a national conference were told last week. Speaking at the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) conference in Harrogate, West Yorkshire, Deborah Lawson, chair of the Professional Association of Nursery Nurses (PANN) branch in Gloucestershire, called for nannies to be 'included in the regulation structure through which standards are maintained and raised' because this would mean that 'those who have harmed children can be struck off with confidence that they cannot work with children again'. She added, 'Until that time, the professional status of...