It is now mandatory that nurseries have a key person system where a practitioner is responsible for a small group of children and does the main caring. Some settings are now waiting for a child to choose their own key person instead of allocating one.
Tina Jones, owner/manager of Carrington Day Nursery in Nottingham, says, 'When a parent registers with the nursery we invite them to attend a welcome session with their child. The aim is to spend time with their family and find out as much information as we can. At that point we used to appoint two key people.
'But we found that once the child started with us, like adults they would form natural associations with some people rather than others. We would then reflect on our key person decisions and think that we'd not always made the best ones.
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