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White condemns downgrading of city's nurseries
Tuesday, 13 December 2005
Sandra White MSP today condemned Glasgow City Councils proposals to downgrade Glasgow's nursery provision by replacing professionally qualified teaching staff with a cheaper option. Under the Council's proposals, which have been shrouded in a veil of secrecy, some of the most professionally qualified of the City's early years specialists will go and their invaluable expertise in early identification of learning and behavioural problems will be lost.

Mrs White said, "I am shocked that when we are talking about aiming for 50% of Scotland's young people attending higher education, Glasgow is intent on cutting back the bedrock on which the whole system is based. Nursery school teachers not only have a full teaching qualification they then have to take specialist early years training before going on to nurture our youngest children. These are dedicated professionals and it would be the most retrograde step to lose them and downgrade our nurseries.

"I think this is cost-cutting gone mad. Many of those who depend on state nursery education will lose out as those who can afford to go private take their children out of what will become a second-class system."
 
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