Management Queries: What to do when a parent objects to a male practitioner being on potty duty?
What is the most effective way to respond to a parent’s request that male staff do not take their...
Management Queries
Do you have a tricky management issue to resolve? Tap into the expertise of a range of experienced nursery managers who provide a solution and approach to a different dilemma every month.
Management Queries - Should staff cover up tattoos?
Our panel discusses whether early years settings should tell staff to cover up their tattoos, or...
Management Queries: How to improve staff spelling and grammar
Our panel discuss what settings can do to improve the written English of staff in order to ensure...
Management Queries: How to work with parents on gender play?
How should a setting react when a parent tells it that they do not want their son to wear dresses...
Management Queries: How to build respect for new managers
How should a new manager overcome hostility from longer-term employees towards both them and newer...
Management Queries: Using phones and smart watches at work
Our panel discuss how settings should manage staff members’ use of mobile phones and smart watches...
Management Queries: Checking potential employees' social media
Is it right for early years settings to look at job candidates’ social media accounts – and if so,...
Management Queries: When staff make a holiday booking 'mistake'
Our panel discuss how managers should treat a situation where a member of staff is on unallocated...
Management Queries: Are vaping breaks ok?
Our panel discuss the issue of vaping and whether members of early years staff should be allowed to...
Management queries: Advice on dealing with inappropriate social media posts
Is it a manager's place to address controversial staff comments that they have made on social media?...
Management queries: What to do when a member of staff says she cannot pick up and carry a child
Our panel discusses how to support staff who may be feeling the strain when it comes to physically...
Management queries -How to raise your nursery's profile
Our panel give their advice on what an early years setting can do to sell itself to local families...
Management queries: Too much personal chat?
Our panel discusses how settings can ensure staff are always engaged with children – rather than...
Management queries: Is messy play for all?
How can practitioners reassure parents who don’t want their children taking part in messy play out...
Management Queries - How do I help?
Our panel discuss what managers can do to support a member of staff who is on antidepressant...
Management Queries: Should parents be charged to hold a place?
This month’s early years panel discuss the appropriateness of charging prospective parents a holding...
Management queries: 'How to recruit when references lack detail?'
Our panel explains how early years settings can get around the problem of past employers only giving...
Management Queries – What to do if staff are reluctant to go outdoors
Nursery leaders suggest a variety of tried and tested ways to support staff to enjoy being outside...
Management Queries - When it’s too late
What is the best way to deal with a member of staff who is consistently late, which is having a...
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