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23 November 2006
This week's columnist Pat Wills offers a solution to
our society's anxieties about touching children I have always found listening
to Cleo Laine singing the evocative song 'Sometimes when we...
23 November 2006
* Education secretary Alan Johnson has named the first
Ofsted board members, who take up their positions in December. The eight
successful candidates were Dame Enid Bibby, Sharon Collins, David...
23 November 2006
* Delegates from the Begonia Foundation, a Taiwanese
charity for teenagers, came to exchange ideas about social enterprise with
London charity Kid's City, whose Teenscene scheme and volunteering/ training
programmes...
23 November 2006
* Nottinghamshire-based childcare company Children 1st
@ Breedon House held its first annual training and awards conference at Long
Eaton School on 7 October. Speaker Terry Gilligan delivered a talk...
23 November 2006
* Tower Hamlets Council in London has received top
marks for children's services from both Ofsted and the Commission for Social
Care Inspection. It was awarded four stars for children's...
23 November 2006
* Coquet Children's Centre in Northumberland has been
awarded Quality Counts accreditation, as part of the Investors in Children
scheme from the NDNA.
23 November 2006
* Ioan Morgan and David Sherlock CBE were officially
appointed to the board of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority by
education secretary Alan Johnson. Re-appointments included Sir David Watson,
Ian...
23 November 2006
* West Wight Children's Centre on the Isle of Wight
received a £441,387 windfall from the Big Lottery Fund's Reaching
Communities programme. The funding will provide two support workers who...
23 November 2006
* A classroom was air-lifted in by crane into Friendly
Frogs nursery in Shilbottle, Northumberland, after fundraising to replace the
previous building, which had only one toilet. The nursery now...
23 November 2006
* The Potters Bar United Reformed Church nursery in
Hertfordshire celebrated its 40th birthday this month with a party attended by
many former staff. Opened in 1966 in Tilbury Hall,...