Your Opinion: Letters

OPEN PLAN BENEFITS I was interested to read your news item on Bents Farm Day Nursery (12 June), which has taken the decision to provide an open-plan setting for children from birth to five. I am surprised that Ofsted was not aware of any other nursery operating like this, as ours has been since we opened in April 2004. We are a 45-place nursery which holds the Key Person approach as our guiding principle. Staff are paired as 'buddies' (working opposite shifts) with children aged six months to six years, joining them to form a family group. We have had two very positive...