4 January 2001
As early years practitioners return to their work with
renewed vigour and enthusiasm after the break, Nursery World has some great new
features for 2001. Our new eight-page pull-out series...
4 January 2001
Term-time school support staff in Northern Ireland look
set to accept proposals put forward by the Province's five Education and
Library Boards which will give them full-time contracts and benefits....
4 January 2001
(Photograph) - Volunteers from Glasgow City Council
dressed up to entertain special needs primary pupils at the Winter Gardens on
Glasgow Green, which they transformed into Santa's Grotto. Other treats...
4 January 2001
Leading early years specialists have strongly
criticised the Government over its approach to the early years, pointing out
how the sector is suffering from 'policy overload' and that rather than...
4 January 2001
The National Day Nurseries Association is currently
conducting a survey of its 1,000 members on the impact of Working Families Tax
Credit on their businesses. The survey is seeking to...
4 January 2001
Children are being invited to write and draw about the
role their dads play in their lives in a competition being run jointly by the
National Children's Bureau (NCB) and...
4 January 2001
'Since no other care provider may smoke over babies or
smack children - no matter what their parents say - this decision singles out
registered childminders as somehow less professional...
4 January 2001
(Photograph) - Children from Leapfrog Day Nursery in
Daybrook visited the Theatre Royal in Nottingham and met pantomime princess
Kate Coysten, one of the stars of 'Jack and the Beanstalk'....
4 January 2001
Early years providers have been warned to be aware that
last year's amendment to the Race Relations Act will place a duty on many of
them to promote racial equality....
4 January 2001
More nursery and primary school teachers sought help
from a local authority's pilot counselling service than senior school teachers,
citing stress and anxiety in the overwhelming majority of cases, according...