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I do not agree that most nurseries in this country are not like the ones shown. I worked in a few different nurseries and i also spent a day or two in a lot of others. I agree there are better ones, but in all but one of them there were staff who may have been qualified but some were clueless, or they were overworked, undervalued and not always caring towards the children. The way some nurseries are run worries me, they are run like a business with the main aim to make a big profit. One manager i knew was proud to run his nursery this way, he was a business man and had no idea about the care of young children. The nursery appeared to be wonderful, beautifully decorated in a lovely refurbished old building. It was expensive and used by highly professional parents who never knew what it was really like. The staff did their best most of the time but with only three of them and at least 13 babies its impossible to give those babies what they need - one to one. I was told off for telling a parent their 10mth old baby had cried nearly the whole day. We were told to lie. When they knew Ofsted were coming they would get bank staff in. The only one i worked in that was run well was a creche at a sports centre, but the children were never there very long and it was a very small number of children.
Its not only that a lot of the day nurseries are not good, its the fact that babies should not be in them. They are never good for babies and children under 2.5yrs. Scoobysoo, can i ask why you are not going to put your baby into a nursery?