Staffing

Each class at Edgbaston Kindergarten is supervised by a designated, qualified and experienced Key Worker, who is assisted by junior nursery nurses. We carry out reference, police and health checks on all of the staff employed at the nursery. We have structured internal and external training sessions for all staff to ensure that standards are maintained and qualifications kept up to date. Because we have a high level of educational activities, we need a high staffing level to provide one to one attention when required.

Our staff to child ratios are therefore amongst the highest for the profession, which enables us to cover staff holidays and other absences with our own nursery nurses rather than bringing in agency staff with whom the children are not familiar. The majority of staff have been trained in basic food hygiene and Paediatric First Aid and there are also designated S.E.N.C.O., Health and Safety and Equal Opportunities officers amongst the staff.