Unison wants nursery nurses working in social services daycare centres to receive between 16,000 and 20,000 for a 35-hour week and 52-week year. They are currently paid between 11,000 and 14,800. Nursery nurses in Scottish schools and classes now earn between 10,000 and 12,000 for a 32.5-hour week. Unison wants to see this rise to Pounds 13,000 to 16,800.
Carol Ball, chair of Unison's national nursery nurse working party and the union's convenor of education for Glasgow, said, 'Nursery nurses have to carry out the Government's national policies such as the literacy and numeracy strategies, so they should have a national job remit.'
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