Nursery World - Reception staff in redundancy fight

Nursery nurses working in reception classes have mounted a campaign to fight their local authority's plans to make them redundant. A consultation paper sent to headteachers in the London borough of Hounslow in the last week of January put forward proposals to cut the budget for reception units by 990,000 and fund reception at the same rate as year one. In practice this would require the withdrawal of nursery nurses from early years teams and affect 97 nursery nurse jobs. The consultation period ends on 15 February.

A consultation paper sent to headteachers in the London borough of Hounslow in the last week of January put forward proposals to cut the budget for reception units by 990,000 and fund reception at the same rate as year one. In practice this would require the withdrawal of nursery nurses from early years teams and affect 97 nursery nurse jobs. The consultation period ends on 15 February.

Linda Mason, a nursery nurse at Cardinal Road Infant and Nursery School, said, 'This would mean that there would be a class teacher with 30 four-year-olds. It's just going to be disastrous - it's going to affect the children's education later on.'

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