Day Nurseries
Day nurseries provide registered early education and childcare for young children from birth to age 5. They usually open from early morning to early evening, Monday to Friday, all year round. They offer a caring, safe, stimulating environment either as full day care or part-time care for babies and pre-school children. Some may also provide care before and after school and in the holidays for children aged 4 to 7 and sometimes older children too.
Registration: |
All day nurseries are encouraged to become members of the National Day Nurseries Association and join a quality assurance scheme. Day Nurseries must:
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Qualifications: |
In any nursery there will be one manager (who isn't included in the staff child ratio). Along with this there should be depending on the size of the nursery a relevant number of staff with a Level 3 qualifications (including BTEC, NVQ, CACHE etc) this allows staff to work unsupervised. Other staff in the nursery should have a Level 2 qualification (including BTEC, NVQ, CACHE, etc); these staff must be supervised as they work. The aim is that all staff will be working towards Level 3 qualifications. For a detailed over view of the range of qualifications avaIiable and what they allow you to do click here |
Useful Information: |
All day nurseries are encouraged to become members of the National Day Nurseries Association and join a quality assurance scheme. National Minimum Standards for Full Day Care produced by the Welsh Assembly Government. These standards are used by the Assembly's Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales (CSIW) when determining whether providers of full day care are providing adequate care for children under the age of eight and are otherwise complying with the relevant requirements. http://www.csiw.wales.gov.uk/docs/Standards_full_daycar_e.pdf |