Has anyone got these cots?

[KatyMac]

here

What do staff and parents (& children) think?

I've seen them at the Nursery World show, hideously expensive!

I know but if I could reorganise I could get more spaces (maybe 12? instead of 9)

grrr

I basically have an under used room 16 by 12 which currently houses 5/6 cots, the craft cupboard & a table for out of schoolers

Katymac - i looked at these. I didn't like them as a nursery manager (seemed a bit impersonal) and as a parents i wouldn't have liked my DS in one. What age are the little ones, we have cots for the 0-18mths and then beds (the mesh type one that sort of hammock in the middle) for the older ones, this frees up loads of space. Or what about the folding wooden cots? Would they work?

Not really it's space we are short of

We have a separate sleep area which could be better used

I do worry about them tho'

I'm not sure beds would work as we aren't in the room with them (it's for children right up to 3/4)

Like you i think wow what a space saver, but i think i would only use them for babies, the older children are to use to going into beds so wouldn't be approiate to put them in those, and they would love to climb out, or attempt to climb out of them.

We have decided against them on various grounds

wow id love to see the ammount of risk assessments that would need to be done on these cots i didnt even know you could get these kinds of cots in the uk i thought they were a american thing ... wow couldnt imagaine ofsted approving of them either with the many health and saftey rules and just for my own sanity id never leave the sleep area for fear of anything going on here

i've seen those before and while I know it's rare, I do remember a friend of a friend whose baby climbed out of its cot at 9 MONTHS!!!

that would be quite a fall!

i kind of like the idea, but i would be scared of the safety of them