Nursery World - Positive Relationships: Staff childcare places

Mothers and their own children spending all day at the same nursery - how can you make it work? Annette Rawstrone asked those who do.

Should nurseries have a policy of welcoming staff members' children into the setting as a mutual benefit - or can it lead to problems among practitioners and confusion for the children?

'I was unsure how having staff children at the nurseries would work, but it's definitely been a positive experience,' says Sarah Channon, owner of BonBons Day Nurseries in West Yorkshire. 'It is also a great advert for the nurseries, to say that we are so confident about them that we trust the staff with our own children, including my daughter.'

At Bringing Up Baby in London, the opportunity for subsidised childcare has proved a successful means of retaining key staff members. Operations manager Jackie Gardiner says, 'It started off with having a manager on maternity leave, and we didn't want to lose her expertise, so we offered subsidised childcare as an incentive. Now we have six staff members with children attending the nurseries.'

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