I have seen a young nursery nurse aged 19 in tears because she had to say, in front of the committee, that she was conscientiously opposed to joining a union.
As the number of children under five in school increases, it is expected that more suitable places will become available for practical training for both teacher and nursery nurse students.
However, in the case of nursery schools and nursery classes the two adults have to be made up of a trained nursery teacher and a trained and qualified nursery nurse.
She was training as a nursery nurse.
That period of change has caused some tension in the teaching profession and in the nursery nurse sector.
She was working as a nursery nurse at a special school.
Some people take the view that there should be at least one trained nursery nurse as an assistant in a class containing four year-olds.
I think of a nursery nurse, who works with a member of my family, and who comes regularly to my advice bureau.
