hypochondriac

If you're a giant fanny it would cause offence.

You could have chosen some better saints pics to compare.

I laughed.

Bit rude that you consider his picture embarrassing?

It was on my phone in a tapatalk folder. Came across it the other day. Shows I'm a fan.

I'm concerned about him. It's a far cry from previous pre-seasons where he supported saints happily with a smile on his little face.

Any update mate?

It hasn't though has it. It's alpine and dalek who do the same thing every year.

Talking about the game in Vitesse...

Oh god. He's at it again...

Utterly horrendous.

I meant in the prem.

All except Jos did a great job for us at cb though.

Doesn't it sort of defeat the point if you have someone on ignore and then post about them all the time?

But cb Fry has already explained that he is pretty far from being right wing yet you continue to pigeon hole so I'm confused.

Whitey the type of dumping in a corner at a crèche doesn't really exist anymore. The vast majority of childcare is now rated good or outstanding and the standards have improved a lot over the last decade. Of course the inspections by tribal are wildly inaccurate but I've been to enough nurseries around the country to know that things are getting better all the time.

Agree with all of this! Nurseries are so much more than just changing nappies and playing nowadays. All of our practitioners have to be working towards their level three childcare qualification and the majority already have it. We have an early years teacher in each setting and this undoubtedly has an impact on what we can offer.

Even if what you say were true, what would you propose we do instead, bearing in mind that all those parents aren't suddenly going to become competent overnight?

That's very true but in reality everyone who has ever worked in a nursery knows that this is the best way and will continue to do this whilst covering themselves for ofsted with the teaching side of things. Love, laughter and play trump "teaching" every day if the week

I would say that it's an individual choice for each parent. In my professional experience a couple of sessions at a preschool a week combined with proper parenting the rest of the time can have noticeable benefits to a child. Most notably, they are given more freedom and independence at nursery and the opportunity to socialise with children from a variety of social backgrounds. I don't agree with parents who use it for their own benefit where they send them there five days a week so they can go shopping but I do realise that everyone is different.

The thinking is that the earlier they can get children into a school environment the better. It's flawed thinking but that's the logic from the government.

I think that potentially the costs for childcare may be slightly lower but what it would mean is that the children who need childcare most would be denied it. Funded two year olds are funded for a reason and it does make a genuine difference to their lives.

If you say so. If you doubt me though I suggest talking to the people involved with this stuff.

That's the whole point though, no subsidy will be forthcoming. If they can provide proper financing to compensate nurseries for the money they lose then fair enough. Isn't going to happen though and the consequences coukd be quite serious for childcare provision in this country. Policies need to be properly financed and thought out, not cooked up in response to the opposition during an election and then pushed through with no thought to the consequences. The public aren't going to consider it such a great policy when nurseries close and there won't be enough to cater for the free places.

It's totally unfunded. Currently funded two year olds are subsidised by fee paying parents because the government pays about half the amount a regular fee paying child would. This will continue with 3 year old funded so that there will be a big reduction accross the board and less parents paying fees (so there will be no opportunity to raise fees to cover the shortfall.) Add to this the living wage increase abd the fact that there will be nowhere near enough spaces to fulfill the demand of this policy and nurseries will be closing around the country because it isn't financially viable. The head of ofsted's solution is to stick pre schoolers in schools but this sidesteps the fact that schools are not equipped for it and they don't want it. In principle 30 hours isn't a bad thing but in practice it hasn't been thought out at all (I'm fact when the bill went before the commons last week they remarked that it amounted to about six lines and was the worst written bill they had seen in years which suggests it was tacked on at the last minute) and was a populist policy designed to get votes.