Opinion: Valuable at any cost

Nursery World, 14 August 2008

Nursery workers can learn to rate themselves more highly, says Helen Penn.

My colleague Liane Mozere has been researching the competences of nursery workers in French creches. The French system of childcare provides state creches for 20 per cent of children aged under three, under the auspices of the Minister of Health. The creches are organised by doctors and psychologists, and have a qualified nurse in charge, but the day-to-day care of the children is undertaken by auxiliaires de periculture or nursery assistants. (At age three children move on to the ecoles maternelles in the school system). The auxiliaires have...

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