All of you who work in nurseries, does the nursery make a distinction between a level 2 and a level 3?

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Does your nursery treat level 2 and 3s the same?
Or are there distinctions made between the two?
Without going into too many details, the question has arisen as a nursery has a room staffed entirely by level 2 staff and see nothing wrong with this. When I said it would be considered bad practice at many other nurseries, i was shot down by the management for even suggesting it.
So, views anyone? As a parent would you be ok with this?

As a Nursery Proprietor and Manager NO I would not and do not accept this.
You MUST have a level 3 in each room.
To be honest I would prefer all staff to have a level 3 (most of ours are)
Ours are on a pay scale to encourage training.

we have practitioners and assisstant practitioners everybody is qualified to at least level 3 and there are a mixture of each in each room.

As a parent who uses a nursery no I wouldnt be happy.

You have both confirmed what I have said. thank you

EYFS states a L3 in each room, so management are not complying with the law if they do not have a L3 in each room

Is it right, that a level 3 must be in charge of a room at all times?

Does this apply when covering breaks?

Yes a L3 member of staff should be in all rooms and this applies at every portion of the day eg. breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea there is no exception to this and any manager who is saying otherwise is not promoting good practice within the setting

Managers should not treat L2 and L3 staff differently generally (everyone should have to do the same tasks eg cleaning toys, nappy changing ect reguardless of levels but L3 staff have more responsability to over see the room and to ensure everything runs smoothly

If a setting tries to say oh well so and so are doing a L3 and the rest are L2 ofsted would still see it as every member of staff in the room was L2 qualified

I thought so, what is it with me finding myself in bad nurseries?!?

Nursery workers often hear about the bad ones because we all talk about them to each other but i feel sorry for some parents who get fooled by a "good" ofsted and some speil and end up in a bad nursery

There is always at least one good nursery per town :)