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In My View: Losing out to profit motive
By Jon Richards, senior national officer, Unison Children'sServices Workforce Unit,
Nursery World,
20 September 2007
Purnima Tanuku's 'Profit or loss?' (13 September) makes some good points about government funding and the private sector, but unfortunately not her suggestion that 'profit' be replaced with 'surplus'. The dictionary defines surplus as, 'an amount left over when requirements have been met'. This is what the public perceive as profit, where funds spent on 'staff training, investment in resources...' and so on have already been included in budgeting and expenditure and therefore are not part of 'profit'.
I cannot agree that 'for nurseries a profit is ethical'. Both the public sector and third sector deliver services where, using Ms...
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