Sir Keir Starmer calling for nursery closure!

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Sorry I’m not sure how to link this but it’s on BBC news.

I see, it’s because they’re private. Thank you. I never used one.

I work in a nursery and have my own children in one and don’t know any staff who want them to stay open.
It’s definitely the parents wanting them open purely for convenience.
Funny those same parents didn’t find it at all convenient today when we had yet another child test positive and have now have to completely close as it was the last room we had open.

@SendHelp30

I work in a nursery and have my own children in one and don’t know any staff who want them to stay open. It’s definitely the parents wanting them open purely for convenience. Funny those same parents didn’t find it at all convenient today when we had yet another child test positive and have now have to completely close as it was the last room we had open.

Genuine question but are you and your colleagues not worried about losing your jobs should your nursery close permanently?

@SendHelp30 why are your children in a nursery?

purely for convenience

Presumably you don’t work for no reason? You work because your job pays your bills and/or because you like your job and think you’re doing something worthwhile? It’s the same for other mothers who work.

Feel this would be the right thing to do . This lock down is flim flam . The schools in our area have so many “key workers” that they might as well have kept open . I don’t mean the real deal. I have no problem with drs , teachers ect. But all of a sudden the world and his brother have redefined their jobs . It’s criminal 😮😳

@GypsyLee

Today a parent said at pick up time that it had been bliss without their 2 year old son at home today. This parent doesn’t work, child already does 3 days and they want them in full time. This is what is frustrating for Early Years workers.

Well if they are paying their child is no less important than any other.
Having a job shouldn't give you unfair access to childcare.
Close the lot then no falling out or whataboutery needed.

I think having a job should give you priority access to childcare, actually - in these extreme circumstances.

The pure convenience of my children having socialisation and learning phonics and me doing my job .. What a selfish arsehole I must be.

@Backbee they’re disabled and in a SEN nursery. It was recommended to us during the first lockdown as the majority of services shut down so it was the only way through lockdown they could see speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and dieticians every week which is what they need.
Not for my convenience. For their development and health.

@IrishMamaMia you don’t do phonics with your child?

@SendHelp30

I work in a nursery and have my own children in one and don’t know any staff who want them to stay open. It’s definitely the parents wanting them open purely for convenience. Funny those same parents didn’t find it at all convenient today when we had yet another child test positive and have now have to completely close as it was the last room we had open.

Why are your children in nursery? For convenience 😏

@Same4Walls I’m not personally worried, no, because we don’t rely on my job to pay bills.

4 members of our staff are leaving and have gotten jobs in other sectors where they are more respected and less at risk. I believe another poster @Freddiefox has witnessed the same thing at her workplace.

I work like you @SendHelp30
On my day off, we re-cap what my child has learned but we don't have much time for that, as I have a baby also. HTH

I think having a job should give you priority access to childcare, actually - in these extreme circumstances.

That would mean hardly any change, at all.
I think vulnerable children, CIN, and those in care tbh.

@Sexnotgender no, for the reason I stated above.

@IrishMamaMia I've got 3 and still manage to read with my eldest.

@Sexnotgender
This is the reason my sons are in nursery

@Backbee they’re disabled and in a SEN nursery. It was recommended to us during the first lockdown as the majority of services shut down so it was the only way through lockdown they could see speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and dieticians every week which is what they need.
Not for my convenience. For their development and health.

I think most nursery staff are not bothered about losing our jobs as we can earn more stacking shelves in Asda. Sure we love the children but we didn't sign up for this and it's not worth the risk for nmw.

Well you are a professional childcare worker @SendHelp30 so I'm sure your kids are lucky that you can presumably teach phonics on a professional capacity even if nurseries close. Lucky them!

Reading with your child and having the skills to teach them phonics yourself are rather different things.

So, you're allowed to care about your children's development and to use nursery to work - even though you don't even need the job - but no one else should? That sounds quite selfish...

@IrishMamaMia I’m not, I’m a finance manager in a nursery. I have no childcare qualifications.

@Hardbackwriter everyone in this country is selfish. This pandemic has proven that.
Yes I’m selfish that I would like my 4 year old son to one day be able to speak and run and skip and tell me he loves me and say mummy. I’m extremely selfish.

@SendHelp30 fair enough. Just saw your updated post.. Looks like your kids were able to attend nursery last lockdown.

What about sahm? Yes we don't have a job but we have school children at home that are reception/year 1 and have their sibling/s that might not be at nursery/self isolating weeks at a time, it's impossible to manage with younger siblings around that you can't teach the school children at home properly. It's not always about resources it's your time they need and that is almost impossible.