13 September 2001
(Photograph) - Term-time support workers demonstrated
outside Huddersfield Town Hall in West Yorkshire last week to lobby their
employers for holiday pay. The Kirklees branch of public service union Unison...
13 September 2001
The best new nurseries are not built just to look
stylish - the environment they create is crucial to children's learning and
happiness. Annette Rawstrone sizes up some winners Laying...
13 September 2001
* The Government is investing £300m to set up 900
new Neighbourhood Nurseries across England by 2004. * The new nurseries will
create 45,000 affordable childcare places in disadvantaged areas...
13 September 2001
How firm and consistent are new national standards for
releasing children from daily care, asks Mary Evans? Childcare providers
gearing up for the start of the Ofsted inspection regime next...
13 September 2001
A supporting criterion under National Standard 12:
Working in partnership with parents and carers states that children should only
be released into the care of people named by the parent....
13 September 2001
Nursery owners must not let quantity take priority over
quality in an expanding childcare market, says Michael Thompson, managing
director of nursery chain Child Base It came as no surprise...
13 September 2001
Children with Asperger syndrome have difficulties
interacting socially even though they have normal intelligence, as Hessel
Willemsen explains It is sometimes thought that the different types of autism
might be...
13 September 2001
Children with Asperger syndrome evoke strong feelings
of frustration in people working with them. This is often followed by strong
feelings of guilt because the needs of the child cannot...
13 September 2001
Make flowers and create a class garden display that
shows the height of all the children. Planned learning intention
13 September 2001
Encourage the children to grow cress seeds in a novel
way. Resources
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