Wwyd

[Piplette]

My daughter has been attending one of the local nurseries for over a year now and she loves it.

Place is nice and is where her older sister spent many happy years.

Just after she started one of my best friends took over the managers role which was fab but also gave me insight into the many issues with how the nursery was run - thankfully she's solved many of these but in doing so has totally burnt out and has told me she is leaving to take on a new role soon.

My daughter is so happy but I'm worried that the standards of care will slip back once my friend leaves (I'm talking serious issues around staff training etc not just minor things).

Should I jump ship now or wait it out? My concern is I had no visibility of the issues until my friend told me so I wouldn't necessarily know if things went downhill again.

I'm just really sad to disrupt things when my daughter is so happy there.

What would you do?

What’s the benefit of jumping ship early?

Leave her there
I wouldn't take her out cos you think it might slip
I mean there's a good chance it might not
If it does slip that's a different matter but why pre-empt something that might not even happen

If you didn't know before your friend started there how will you know the same issues aren't occurring elsewhere - unless you plan to follow the friend to a new nursery...

I would leave her where she’s happy.

She's really happy there, why disturb that?
You wouldn't of known anything if your friend hadn't stated work there.
Things may not slip.

It'll probably be fine. Don't take her out if you don't need to.

When I say jumping ship, I'm meaning moving before standards start to slip again. It's true they might not but some of the stuff I know has happened in the past gives me the fear and actually put the children in the nursery in danger.

You are right that I don't know that the same thing isn't happening elsewhere - it's more the fact that I do know that it has happened here in the past and there is a chance it will happen again.