I foresee lots of issues with this.
I suspect badly run nurseries will use the proposed ratios to reduce staff and increase profit rather than reduce the cost to parents.
I believe the idea was also to improve the quality of people entering the childcare sector by raising qualification requirements and pay available. I don't see businesses paying staff more but they could be faced with paying for further staff training. It may discourage young people looking to enter childcare if they are going to have to study for longer before they can get a paid position, long term this could drive wages up I suppose.
In my experience no matter how well qualified a member of staff is there is a limit to how many tasks they can do at the same time. Nurseries looking to provide high quality childcare will work to ratios that work but this could put them at a disadvantage to those nurseries who look to max out the ratios.
Any thoughts on this?
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