Last week I attended a nursery dinner with various operators from the south-east of England, where we started to discuss the question 'What makes a nursery special?'
I was pleasantly surprised when, uniformly, we all agreed that getting the right manager was the key to success. But we each had different reasons for coming to this choice. These included having teambuilding skills, having the right 'front-of-house' manner, managing staff, controlling bad debt - the list seemed endless. Eventually we agreed that the most important attribute good managers had was their willingness to take a personal pride in their nursery.
There is still a nagging doubt in my mind as to how the future requirement to have at least one early years graduate in each setting will be organised in practice. Will that person need to be the 'manager' or the person in control? Could it be they will take on the role of Room Senior in Pre-School and concentrate purely on the educational element of nursery provision?
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