Standards are very wide ranging across the sector, some of it is down to poor leadership, corner cutting or just the basic training practitioners recieve

But i agree there is a lot of provision that is questionable in terms of good practice. I visit a lot of settings with the aim of supporting them to deliver quality of care and quite honestly a lot of staff don't have the depth of knowledge to deliver this - not their fault in all cases.

I agree with the comment of poor pay and can say that the schools pay better and they snap up all the good staff - you cant blame the staff for looking at better pay

However on the other hand some settings are excellent

One of my responsibilities for the near future is to develop ways of educating parents what to look for when they choose childcare - hopefully this will mean that the poor setting will not get the children or they will have to look at ways of moving forward to deliver the quality that the children in their care deserve