smokers at nursery

jellyhead

and that's your choice, to find child carers who don't smoke.

but surely you can't tell people what to do on their breaks? if she smokes too close to the building then maybe there are rules about that - for the sake of people entering and leaving the building. but as long as she moves away from the building she's not breaking any rules as far as i know, and i don't think mothers can dictate what the staff are doing in their break time unless it's against the rules about being sober and not under the influence of illegal drugs.

helenrowland

Thanks for all your opinions. After speaking to Ofsted they like to encourage a no smoking policy in child care areas but leave it up to the individual providers to organise their policies. ASH also encourage this and advised me to question indepth! They also informed me of an artical in a journal which stated;
"smoking outside and away from the infant reduces but does not completely protect infants from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)"
This is to do with ETS being exhaled and on the smokers' skin which forms dust on all furnishings, toys, carpets etc, and as children tend to put a lot of things in their mouths and contaminating themselves.....
There's a whole lot more to this issue than it first appears!!

wigginsmum

I think realistically then you'll have to try and find a nursery with zero tolerance to smoking by employees both during and outside working hours. Good luck!

Dora_the_Explorer_5

If the nursery is licensed by the local authority it may have to adopt the LA policy on workplace smoking, which is usually not on premises in in the grounds.

margaretclare

essexhoney wrote:

after reading that id hazard a guess that ur not that far away from me :rotfl:

Ah yes. The hospital that has just won independent status, as trumpeted on the front page of the local evening paper?

We live near a pub which is named after a former queen who formerly lived hereabouts, one of the queens who got her head chopped off.

Margaret Clare

elaine373

I would just ask what their policy is on workers and smoking and say thats its nothing personal but you are not happy with a carer smelling of cigarrettes when looking after your child. I had a child who went to a pre-school where one of the carers smoked outside. my child came out twice smelling of it too. luckily she left.

Broken_hearted

When I last worked in a school you were not allowed to smoke in the staff room, or any of the building, in the school yard or outside of the gate. You had to go off for a walk somewhere outside the school grounds and hide (No I'm not joking ). The parents smoke wherever they feel like it right up to the school door.

Broken_hearted

On the other hand if a person wants to go off and smoke on their break time away from the children its no-one elses business.

misty

My friend was a heavy smoker - one of the many reasons she gave up was because it was limiting her job options when she was thinking of moving jobs. Many of the vacancies (she works with kids) had strict no smoking during work hours policies - she didn't think she could last the day out. She wasn't going to let it cost her even more money and managed to quit. There are employers who are strict about it - it's finding them.

essexhoney

margaretclare wrote:

Ah yes. The hospital that has just won independent status, as trumpeted on the front page of the local evening paper?

We live near a pub which is named after a former queen who formerly lived hereabouts, one of the queens who got her head chopped off.

Margaret Clare

that would be the one :rotfl:
im at the other end of that very long road next to that very same pub :rotfl: small world eh?

helenrowland
i personally wouldnt stand ofr it at all and if you are really that concerned about it i would take your complaint as far as you can and even possibly look into finding an alternative place at a different nursery for your son.
You wouldnt do it to your child so what right does that give anyone else to?