Editor's view
11 July 2002
Hot on the heels of Bright Horizons Family Solutions'
acquisition of Kinderquest, Busy Bees has snapped up the Lancashire-based
Kindercare Childcare Centres group (see News, page 4), taking it to...
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Chain leaps up list in merger
11 July 2002
The Busy Bees childcare group has become the
second-largest nursery chain in the UK and Ireland following its purchase of
Lancashire-based Kindercare Childcare Centres. Busy Bees, which was the fifth...
Gallery of nursery winners
11 July 2002
(Photograph) - * Nursery staff enjoyed a black-tie
occasion when Ravenstone House Pre-Preparatory School and Nursery Group had its
first annual awards ceremony. The event was held in the 18th-century...
New drive calls for children's centres
11 July 2002
Childcare charity the Daycare Trust is calling on the
Government to set up a nationwide programme of children's centres. The Trust is
launching its campaign as an informal cross-departmental review...
Criminal Records Bureau
11 July 2002
The performance of the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)
came under scrutiny in the House of Lords last week. Lord Falconer of Thornton,
a Home Office minister, told peers it was...
The work of psychoanalyst Anna Freud commemorated
11 July 2002
Anna Freud in helping children with emotional and
behavioural difficulties has been commemorated with an English Heritage Blue
Plaque at her London house. The plaque marks the 50th year of...
In my view
11 July 2002
Early Education has asked us to point out that contrary
to what was stated at the end of 'In my view' (4 July), Margaret Edgington will
not be talking about...
Quote of the week
11 July 2002
'We will not apologise for raising standards and we are
not about to change a strategy admired around the word. Children cannot learn
anything until they get the basics right.'...
£1.2m in grants to develop nurseries
11 July 2002
A factory, a former cinema and derelict farmland are
among 14 sites designated for new neighbourhood nurseries with grants worth
more than £1.2m from the New Opportunities Fund (NOF). Among...
Gently does it
11 July 2002
(Photograph) - Gently does it as pupils David Gillian
and Holly Armstrong try out their massage skills. The children at Cochrane
Castle Primary School in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, are being taught...
