12 July 2001
Student parents across Britain are to benefit from a
fresh injection of cash to help them with childcare costs. Education and skills
minister Margaret Hodge revealed last week that from...
12 July 2001
The Queen has become a patron of the Council for Awards
in Children's Care and Education as a result of incorporating the National
Association for Maternal and Child Welfare. CACHE...
12 July 2001
An RAF nursery is holding an open day and summer fair
on 21 July to celebrate the opening of its new extension. Teresa Hake, manager
of RAF Coningsby Nursery Centre...
12 July 2001
The telephone number to contact Awards for All should
have been 0845 600 2040, not as stated in last week's Nursery World. We
apologise for the error.
12 July 2001
'The sign on the door of my daughter's classroom said
it all: "We are assessing the children's literacy skills, so there will be no
reading this week." Thanks to a...
12 July 2001
The Treasury has been accused of not yet having
accepted unequivocally that children are entitled to be cared for by a trained
workforce. The accusation was made last week in...
12 July 2001
Nursery owners and prospective owners in England have
been told not to panic about the new early years regulatory system which is
coming into force from September under the auspices...
12 July 2001
(Photograph) - Young Lewis Watt is captivated by a
plasma globe during the first anniversary celebrations of the Sensation science
centre in Dundee, Scotland. The centre is the only one...
12 July 2001
Children's charities in Ireland have welcomed the
unanimous support given by the Northern Ireland Assembly to improve the vetting
of people who work with children in the Province. Both the...
12 July 2001
Up to one in 15 children in the UK are living with
parents who have serious drink problems, two charities warned last week. The
National Family and Parenting Institute (NFPI)...