Within its response to the consultation on relaxing childcare ratios, which closed last week (16 September), Community, the union for education and early years professionals, highlights its concerns around Government proposals to increase the number of children aged two and above, staff in childcare settings can care for.
It argues that the proposed changes risk children’s safety, could harm their development and would increase staff stress and workload.
The union goes on to outline its and its members’ concerns, they include:
Community’s consultation response states, ‘Even when eating a packed lunch children may try to share food which prompts fears of allergies, or choking hazards, there are hazards associated with the correct use of cutlery and there are packages that will need to be opened, furthermore there is the ever-present risk of spillage.
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