9 August 2001
6 September Developing an education and training
strategy for child psychotherapy services in Scotland
9 August 2001
An advocacy service which will be available to all
private and voluntary sector providers to help them work within their childcare
partnerships is to be set up by the Scottish...
9 August 2001
(Photograph) - * Children have headed for the hills
this summer in Leanachan Forest in West Highlands (pictured), where Forest
Enterprise has devised Trailquest to introduce children to the area's...
9 August 2001
Classroom assistants in England and Wales are
increasingly taking on a teaching role, yet many earn less than a third of a
teacher's salary. A study carried out by the...
9 August 2001
Nursery workers have successfully negotiated a fair pay
and grading claim with Ealing Council in west London. The deal, which will
result in nursery officers receiving an average £3,500 pay...
9 August 2001
Scottish Borders Council has voted in support of a
package of measures designed to shear £1.57m off the education budget in
order to address a £2.8m overspend. At a meeting...
9 August 2001
(Photograph) - Aliens landed on Glasgow Green last week
to join in the fun of 'Playday 2001: a space odyssey'. Children, parents,
carers and summer playgroups zoomed in from across...
9 August 2001
The Scottish National Party will consider paying a
subsidy direct to childcarers as a way of reducing the high cost of childcare,
as it devises its policies for the next...
30 August 2001
I agree with Kay Hever (Letters, 26 July) that nursery
nurses and learning support assistants are grossly underpaid and undervalued.
She says she does as much work as the teacher....
30 August 2001
I am responding to the letter 'It's time to recognise
BAs in early childhood' (2 August). The book Focus on early childhood;
principles and realities, edited by Boushel, Fawcett and...