21 February 2002
Graham Smith (above) has been appointed chair of
Kidsunlimited, and its founder-director Stewart Pickering has moved to the post
of vice-chairman. Mr Smith's appointment follows a £12m funding package
from...
14 February 2002
The Government's need to tackle secondary education in
its second term of office is obviously pressing, but its feeling that the early
years sector is now all hunky-dory - education...
14 February 2002
Early years organisations have expressed their
disappointment with an apparent shift in Government attitudes following remarks
made by the education secretary in the House of Commons last week. During a...
14 February 2002
(Photograph) - Popular nursery nurse Nathan Sweetman
won the gong for 'the staff member most voted for by parents' in the Teddies
Nurseries awards. Nathan, who works at the Teddies'...
14 February 2002
The chief inspector of schools has said that if the
Government were to decide to set up a register of nannies it would not happen
for at least two years....
14 February 2002
The Child Poverty Action Group has called for the
Government to provide asylum- seeker mothers with free milk tokens. The charity
believes babies are being put at risk of HIV...
14 February 2002
Nursery chain Kinderquest has made its quality
assurance system for managing nurseries available on CD-Rom. The system can be
used for training or interactively by nursery managers to maintain quality...
14 February 2002
'We wish Mike Tomlinson well when he goes to Hackney -
it is certainly an improvement on the Daily Telegraph' Liberal Democrat
education spokesman Phil Willis during the debate in...
14 February 2002
(Photograph) - The work of a successful child
development programme in Scotland looks set to continue thanks to a Pounds
70,000 cash injection. The Play@home activity scheme, originally set up...
14 February 2002
The first New Opportunities Fund (NOF) grants towards
neighbourhood nurseries were awarded last week. The Fund's Building
Neighbourhood Nurseries programme has awarded grants totalling £154,094
in Herefordshire, Newcastle and Bolton...
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