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Neil Leitch, chief executive at the Pre-school Learning Alliance, has criticised today’s Good Morning Britain report titled, ‘Are nurseries safe?’

 

The report investigated the overall safety of early years settings following the closure of an �°������ϲʹ�������-rated ‘good’ setting in which an undercover reporter found unsafe practices.

 

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Gill said that �°������ϲʹ������� was looking to make “serious” improvements.

 

In a statement, Neil Leitch noted that the wellbeing of young children should always be the utmost priority for all childcare providers, and that it was absolutely right for a safeguarding concern to be thoroughly investigated.

 

“That said, there is a big difference between raising specific concerns about the practices of a single provider and suggesting that there are low standards of care across the whole sector, and we are both frustrated and disappointed that today’s Good Morning Britain report fell into the latter category,” Neil said.

 

“Headlines like ‘Are nurseries safe?’ paint a grossly unfair and negative picture of the early years sector that in no way reflects the quality of care provided day in and day out by thousands of providers.”

 

Neil then went on to invite Good Morning Britain to visit one of the Pre-school Learning Alliance’s own settings across the country who deliver “nothing but the highest level of quality care and education on a daily basis”.