I had naively assumed that a nursery was much the same kind of institution that I knew in the 1990s when I handed my infant son to the care of the staff at our nursery. What I did not grasp was that, in the interim, the nursery had become one of the most intensely regulated institutions in the world.
The nursery professionals whom I talked to all loved their work. Many of them regarded their job as their chosen vocation and it was apparent that they were devoted to the youngsters in their care. However, their enthusiasm for their vocation co-existed with a deep sense of unease about the way that their work was subjected to an intrusive regime of regulation.
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