11 March 2004
Brush up your policy on health and hygiene and share it
with parents to reduce illnesses among the children, advises Mary Evans Coughs
and sneezes spread diseases, as the saying...
11 March 2004
An inspection could be like a scene from a horror film,
or it could go like a dream, says Mairi Maciver Clark When Alfred Hitchcock
shot the 'Psycho' scene with...
11 March 2004
By Peter Newell, co-ordinator of Children Are
Unbeatable!, an alliance of more than 350 organisations that campaigns for law
reform on the physical punishment of children Equal protection is every...
11 March 2004
As the leader and manager of a pre-school, I am
concerned about the difficulty of recruiting trained staff. Ours is a happy,
successful and well-established setting, and I know we...
11 March 2004
In her letter ('Why re-qualify?', 12 February), Angela
Beecham stated that anyone who qualified as a childcare professional before the
introduction of the Children Act 1989 must re-qualify. This is...
11 March 2004
Angela Beecham wrote as someone qualified as an NNEB in
1985 and now feeling she needs to re-qualify. May we suggest a third route, if
she is finding that neither...
11 March 2004
Angela Beecham perfectly explains the situation of many
experienced practitioners who have a wealth of knowledge and understanding,
along with practice skills born from years of hard-won experience, but have...
11 March 2004
I am a student at Plymouth University in my final year
of studying for a BA in Early Childhood Studies. My research project is on
whether smacking a child is...
11 March 2004
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