Lng story but here goes.
I work in a creche and we have a new member of staff. she used to work in a day nursery where my friends son goes so naturally I asked for all the dirt.
I was NOT expecting to hear what she told me!!!!!
- The recently knocked the wall down between the 2 rooms. They told the parents it was so the children had more room to play. really it was cos they have so few qualified staff they needed to knock the wall down so only one qualified person would need to be in the room.
- Sometimes one member of staff would be with 12 babies!!!! they are really short staffed and always over ratio.
- There is never enough food for the children, eg 1/2 a fish finger and a blob of mash for dinner for a 2 year old!!! For tea a cream cracker and some rasins.
- The worst thing for me to hear was that one mom was very knowledgable about ofsted regulations and always counted the staff and would not leave her child there until there was the right ratio. they used to pretend to her like there was the right staff for the room, then when she left everyone would go back to what they were doing before!! they would look at when this ladies son was due in and move everyone around. To me thats just like lying!!
SO... obviously I told my friend and they have gone in and kicked off about it (when they went in it was 12 babies and 2 staff!!!) So my mate is dealing with it.
BUT I have got hold of the number of the lady who counts the staff. I am going to ring her, I've made my mind up about that. BUT I don't want this girl I work with to get into trouble with her ex-employer, how shall I say how bad it is to this mom without the nursery finding out this girl has been telling people what it's like?
I work in a creche and we have a new member of staff. she used to work in a day nursery where my friends son goes so naturally I asked for all the dirt.
I was NOT expecting to hear what she told me!!!!!
- The recently knocked the wall down between the 2 rooms. They told the parents it was so the children had more room to play. really it was cos they have so few qualified staff they needed to knock the wall down so only one qualified person would need to be in the room.
- Sometimes one member of staff would be with 12 babies!!!! they are really short staffed and always over ratio.
- There is never enough food for the children, eg 1/2 a fish finger and a blob of mash for dinner for a 2 year old!!! For tea a cream cracker and some rasins.
- The worst thing for me to hear was that one mom was very knowledgable about ofsted regulations and always counted the staff and would not leave her child there until there was the right ratio. they used to pretend to her like there was the right staff for the room, then when she left everyone would go back to what they were doing before!! they would look at when this ladies son was due in and move everyone around. To me thats just like lying!!
SO... obviously I told my friend and they have gone in and kicked off about it (when they went in it was 12 babies and 2 staff!!!) So my mate is dealing with it.
BUT I have got hold of the number of the lady who counts the staff. I am going to ring her, I've made my mind up about that. BUT I don't want this girl I work with to get into trouble with her ex-employer, how shall I say how bad it is to this mom without the nursery finding out this girl has been telling people what it's like?
