I am looking for research that says some parents don't care about unqualified staff in nursery. Can you help?

Question

I'm not saying i agree with this, i need it for college studies.

Answer 1

Fact Only 1/2 the staff in the daycare centre nursey must have a qualification,some parents don't even know the name of the person caring for their child.Private day care tends to be the worse.

Answer 2

I would care if my child was being looked after by inexperienced people and I'm sure many other decent people would but in this day and age the 'chav' is and important image. It seems to me that it is the chavy families who live in council estates and rough areas who tend not to care.

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Answer 3

I don't know of about official research but from talking with mom's who need day care for their children they sometimes have to accept what they can afford. Not sure they do it because they don't care about the staff but they need to work. Needing to work and having a low income causes some parents to accept quality that is not always the best.

Answer 4

Sometimes it is just a matter of value for money...not everybody can affort highest quality in childcare, because they do not have the money, and they are actually runnig after MONEY the whole day long...

Answer 5

I am almost certain that you would find something you can use in the EPPE project (just put in into your search engine). It's about preschool education and includes parents perceptions of what good practice should be. If it doesn't say anywhere that parents don't care, it will at least prove that qualifications in nursery staff are important. Other than that you could do your own research with parents in your own setting.

Hope this helps! :-)

Answer 6

specific research? I know from experience that this is true.  I worked at a privately owned daycare that had inexperienced and unqualified staff that didn't know that calling a child a whino was wrong!!  I didn't work there very long - I butted heads with the owner waaaaaay too many times to count.  But the only thing I can figure is that parents are so desperate for anyplace to take their kids to so they can work, they will take them anywhere - that would have to be the only way this place stays in business.

Answer 7

check up the Guardian education, they did an article about that, maybe in September.

I also remember an article in the Independent, about unqualified staff taking care of children.

Answer 8

I have cared for children for the last fourteen years and throughout that time have never met any parent/carer who didnt care that staff were unqualified. All the parents/carers that I met were always very careful about choosing childcare as they were always aware of what to look for or what questions to ask when they first approached their childcare provider.