Rockcliffe Childrens Centre, St. John's, NL

I worked here and I had my children here. Staff spent too much time gossiping about their lives and tended to be in a click. Those that were in a click spent most of the morning downstairs while staff upstairs were left to do all of the work and preparing for snack alone when over numbers for children. Leaving staff short so snack would be on time, because if having to wait for staff to come upstairs the children would never get their snack on time. There were favourites and a lot of talking behind each others backs, any bad news that had to be given to a staff was known first busy everyone else except the staff it concerned.Rules were made up each day to fit those in the click, like for example ; staff that had children could not have them in the Centre. I was fortunate to get my kids in before this came in effect,and that rule stuck. That is until friends of the staff started working there and the rules were bent for them, which wasn't fair at all because staff that had kids and were working there longer were not allowed to do this. Really unprofessional place, although programming and lunch menus are great. Staff should spend less time talking about their own lives and spending more time engaging with the children there, after all that's what it's all about. There is a lot that goes on behind these closed doors and I'm hoping a fill investigation will be done, one in which no one at the Centre will see it coming, to give warnings of when a social worker is around to put their hot coffees away and to pretend they worked all morning. L****** C**** needs to see what happens there for real, and the parents need to take a stand! And sadly this probably won't go public because the operator won't want the truth to come out but all in good time.