To ask about your experience with male nursery staff

[GloMum]

My daughter will be starting pre-reception and her key worker at the nursery is male. As a whole, the class will be overseen by this teacher plus two more female members of staff. Does anyone have experience with male nursery staff, especially in regards to caring for girls.

Ok, how about 96% of all sexual assaults are perpetrated by men.

Being male is statistically the biggest determinant of criminality. You’ve just got to look at the relative prison populations. Men are approx 80,000 and women just 2,000. A worryingly high number of women are in for offences like non payment of tv licence fines or shoplifting etc.

My daughter has 2 men in her room at nursery and she adores them both. Her key work is a woman though they do spend time with all of the teachers. Both the men are very different to each other but they are lovely and they have so much fun! I might feel different if it was a child minder and they were alone but there’s always 3 or 4 staff in the room.

I taking it this comes f ok either single parents no men around not used to men around children or a social media zombie men r only good for handing over pay packets and pro creation other then that they should disappear into the background

This post looks like it's written by a single dad who's not had much luck with women and can't get one to stick around.

To be frank, you're no likelier to guess if your boyfriend's a paedophile than if a stranger is. How would you tell? A paedophile's hardly going to blurt out "Damn, she's fit!" when a three-year-old toddles past.

It does seem bizarre that it's socially acceptable not to want a male keyworker for a child in a nursery environment, but anyone who suggests it's irresponsible for a mother to give an unrelated male access to her children's bedrooms every night gets shouted down as judgmental. I suppose it's because a nursery refusing to hire men doesn't impact the mother negatively, whereas not moving your partner in requires self-sacrifice.

Wrong gender. To be single dad sorry to disappoint

Nappy changing areas have windows so he wouldn’t be alone with your child.

male nursery workers are no different to female ones. The two cases of abuse in nursery’s in this country that I can think of were committed by female staff

They are different. Yes there have been female childcare workers sexually abusing children but men as a class present a much higher risk than women in terms of sexual abuse and violence. There have been men convicted of abusing children in childcare settings too even though there are only a fraction as many male childcare workers as there are female.

More needs to be done to protect children from abusive carers of both sexes because there’s been some horrific cases of physical abuse by female carers too(and some sexual abuse) but it is not bigotry to acknowledge that men are a much higher risk.

https://theconversation.com/childcare-sexual-abuse-is-mostly-committed-by-men-failing-to-recognise-that-puts-children-at-risk-260292

My daughters key worker is male, she adores him, he has been great. I trust him, the same as other staff members with her care. If it was a woman breaking the barrier into a man's world you would be saying why not, if she can do the job.

A long time ago but DD1s key worker was male she went to nursery age 3. He was lovely, no complaints at all. Her nursery was a stand alone, state funded and had the highest standards of safeguarding and professionalism.

When DD was at nursery there were several male staff members and they were by far the most popular amongst the kids. Never had any issues with any of them, they seemed to really enjoy working with the kids and getting into playing with them. Constantly seemed to have kids attached to them as they moved through the nursery.

After Ashley Paul Griffith and now Joshua Dale Brown, it’s a big conversation in Australia.

The sheer volume of victims is heartbreaking.

CW:

https://au.news.yahoo.com/childcare-sexual-abuse-mostly-committed-010035248.html

Sorry but I think at this point MEN SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO WORK IN NURSERIES!! I don’t care if it’s discriminatory - I’m yet to hear of any female nursery worker raping babies. Male nursery workers sooo disproportionally commit crimes because the dodgy ones apply to be in close proximity to babies and young children..! Primary school ok, when kids can explain what’s happening to them but please let’s just ban the asap

Reading about the recent instance in the UK of a male nursery teacher raping young babies and children.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly3yn4kjwzo

NO MORE MALE NURSERY WORKERS!