Task 14
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1. Lizz Brown a real stories news reporter goes undercover in three private day care nurseries in order to discover the truth behind private day care. What she discovered was that the staff were overworked and under trained; at times the staff even shouted, roughly handled and called the children names such as a “minger” What Lizz Brown found will concern any parent who is using, or considering using, private day care.
The nurseries which Lizz Brown investigated were not one-off unregistered nurseries that have slipped through the net. They are Ofsted, government-approved nurseries that on the surface appear to be shining examples of childcare at its best.
Lizz Brown was really passionate in her report and ended her report with this statement. ‘If parents can't have confidence in the Ofsted inspection system, just who can they trust?

2. Laura Clark reports that mothers go undercover to expose nursery food worth as little as 25p.Their concerns include a lack of compulsory training for nursery staff serving food and no clear nutritional standards. Some 13,600 nurseries across England cater for nearly 600,000 children. One contributor, Gemma Spratt, wrote that one nursery told her it gave the children cakes and if she denied her daughter sweet things it would be her responsibility if this made her daughter misbehave.
A Soil Association spokesman also stated: 'There are all these amazing things that have happened for school meals, but nothing for children in nurseries - who are arguably the most vulnerable. We think this is unacceptable, and we want changes to be made urgently.

3. Imogen Willcocks a BBC television reporter went undercover to work in a troubled just Learning nursery in Cambourne, near Cambridge, for 11 days and a leading British Holiday Company Mark Warner, where she exposed a string of breaches of good childcare. She was employed to look after children under the age of five without having any experience of working with children and without any childcare