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'European countries recognise and value early years education and childcare as a separate profession. In this country it is often viewed as a "woman's" job, or one that is taken because the individual is not intelligent enough to teach. Both these skewed perceptions serve to make nursery work an undervalued job.' Carol Ball, chair of Unison Scotland's nursery nurse working party
'European countries recognise and value early years education and childcare as a separate profession. In this country it is often viewed as a "woman's" job, or one that is taken because the individual is not intelligent enough to teach. Both these skewed perceptions serve to make nursery work an undervalued job.'

Carol Ball, chair of Unison Scotland's nursery nurse working party