22 September 2005
The winner of the Community Playthings storage chest
competition (Nursery World, 11 August) is Rebecca Taylor from Birch Grove Day
Nursery in Cheshire.
22 September 2005
The £155m Big Lottery Fund (BLF) for children's
play in England should not be seen by local authorities 'as a replacement for
existing funding', Adrian Voce from the Children's Play...
22 September 2005
Ofsted is to open a national centre for processing
registrations of childcare providers later this year in Manchester. The
National Business Unit will be based at Ofsted's existing regional office...
22 September 2005
Nursery chain Busy Bees has doubled its childcare
voucher business since May and is expecting a turnover of more than £60m
this year. The number of employees in the voucher...
22 September 2005
(Photograph) - Children from Westminster Children's
Society's Luton Street Community Child Care Centre in north-west London test
out their new activity boards made by a team of volunteers from Barclays...
22 September 2005
The Scottish Independent Nurseries Association (SINA)
has been dissolved and is in the process of setting up a new member
organisation in partnership with the National Day Nurseries Association in...
22 September 2005
Sure Start is an expensive disaster? Or is the research
into its outcome the expensive disaster? We can rely on Melanie Phillips and
her coterie of grumpy old fogies -...
22 September 2005
* Catherine Andrews has replaced Ken Davies as the new
chief executive of school grounds charity Learning through Landscapes. She
joins LTL after nine years as executive director of Groundwork,...
22 September 2005
7 October Reflecting on your practice
22 September 2005
Childcarers' understanding of child protection issues
has been judged to be lacking. Simon Vevers looks at the bigger picture The
need to ensure effective child protection procedures and improve staff...