Editor's view
16 August 2001
The national care standards and accompanying guidance
should have signalled their arrival with a thud through your letterbox by now.
Early years professionals will be struck by the parallels between...
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Funding cuts halt training of carers
16 August 2001
Cuts in funding for childcare students have prompted
one provider to focus on management training instead, suggesting that
Government policy is having the opposite effect of its stated aim of...
Lord Winston at the opening of the Westminster Children's Society new sensory studio
16 August 2001
(Photograph) - Lord Winston, presenter of the
television series 'The Human Body' and 'Child of Our Time' and professor of
fertility studies at Imperial College, London, brought a scholarly touch...
Leading nursery chain set to double its sites
16 August 2001
The fourth largest nursery group in the UK, Kids
Unlimited, announced last week that it has obtained £12m funding to
double in size from 32 to 64 nurseries over the...
In brief...The UK childcare industry
16 August 2001
The UK childcare industry attracted a revenue of Pounds
2.8bn in 1999, the latest figure available, according to financial news service
Bloomberg. The figure, from market researcher Key Note, reflects...
In brief...The Department for Education and Skills reorganised
16 August 2001
The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) has been
reorganised with the aim of bringing the childcare and early years divisions
together and providing better services to Early Years Development...
Quote of the week
16 August 2001
'For some time, governments have regarded education as
a tool for realising extraneous objectives. In the 1980s education was promoted
on the grounds that it made good economic sense. Under...
The Daycare Trust's new headquarters at Elephant and Castle
16 August 2001
(Photograph) - The Daycare Trust's new headquarters at
Elephant and Castle in the London borough of Southwark was formally opened by
local MPs Simon Hughes (bottom, left) and Harriet Harman...
Nursery forced to relocate after fire
16 August 2001
A purpose-built day nursery has been destroyed in a
suspected arson attack. The Jigsaw Day Nursery in Bradwell Common, Milton
Keynes, was so badly burnt in the fire on 6...
Nurseries put farm crisis behind them
16 August 2001
Early years practitioners have been counting the cost
of the foot and mouth crisis both to business and to the children in their
care, as farming communities in Dumfries and...
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