When Ian Everitt (In My View, 1 April) wrote to the Government and asked why the early years was not seen as a profession, a civil servant told him it was not a graduate profession. We early years professionals all know it is not a graduate profession - but it deserves to be counted as one. We also know what the job of childcare involves and that it is not a job for the fainthearted.
Nursery nurses are seen by many people in society as being the equivalent of mothers, doing the job of caring for children for love, not money.
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