If Carlsberg made nurseries...what would you want them to be like?

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C'mon honest answers please!

A stable, happy, decently-paid workforce would be nice in order to get people who genuinely care about the children they look after.

Someone will come on here now going on about the inappropriateness of Carlsberg sponsoring nurseries!

I would like a very safe environment with regular staff who don't change every 3 months or so. Lots of outside time, tasty and appealing meals, no computer games or TV please, lots of messy things for them to explore. Staff who take an interest in their development, who listen to the parents and take their concerns on board. Flexibility to be able to work around parents work patterns and accept extra hours at short notice, and who don't charge when your child is not there.

And that allow pets.

And a bar for the parents to mix in

Wot Rhubart sed

But with a spa as well as a bar (free, of course, manned by Luka-off-ER and Gordon Ramsey dishing up the food)

Organic fresh food grown on site and prepared by Jamie Oliver or suchlike.

Hmm - will be watching with lots of interest

Free beer for the parents

Welcoming doormen called Sven

Said doorman saying "slow down, there's no rush, plenty of time"

A separate sleeping room with black-out blinds, food which was cooked fresh from scratch instead of with pre-made cr*p, lots of outdoor space (preferably with grass) and low staff turnover... Agree no tv or computer games...

I'd like to be able to drop dd off in her pj's. Parents to be welcomed to eat deliciously cooked meals with their children, or to snack at the bar without the children. A ratio of 1 to 2. To only have to pay for the hours you use them for, not either 1/2 or full days.

dd would like ... exclusive use of the slide and water play

Hi, I run a nursery and pretty much provide all asked for....apart from the bar, spa, sven or jamie or gordon...do have a chef..but NO WAY does he resemble these two!! Freshly cooked food every day from scratch, outside play with grass. We dont have a separate sleep room, we like to be with the children all the time asleep or awake and have no problems with light keeping them awake, and re the computer...we have to unfortunately...OFTSED requirement!!! there are good ones out there, hell, ours is a good one...but sven decided to go elsewhere!!!!
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I second edam. Staff that genuinely like their work so they will turn up every day, stay longer than for just a few months and so that staff ratios are always respected.

I'd love to be able to not charge parents when their child wasn't there.

Unfortunately, I'd then have to not pay our staff or landlord while the child was absent, too.

Like the nursery I use, although maybe I'd like it to be open half an hour later in the evening.

It's brilliant.

Run by Camden Council; half the price of the private one I used to use and about one million times better.