Brave new world - toys 0-6 months
24 May 2001
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Editor's view
24 May 2001
Political party manifestos have been emerging left,
right and centre over recent days. And as the NSPCC points out this week (see
News, page 5), politicians of all persuasions have...
Labour promises for pre-school sector
24 May 2001
Pre-school representatives took scant notice of a
Labour pledge on Neighbourhood Nurseries unveiled at their annual conference
last week. Education secretary David Blunkett told delegates at the Pre-school
Learning Alliance's...
Brave new world
24 May 2001
Babies progress rapidly from an inability to play with
toys to an inexhaustible fascination with them. Jenny Benjamin shows how to
keep up Most new babies are surrounded by toys...
Best buys
24 May 2001
* An old favourite is the Mirror Chimeabout, made by
Edu-Play and available from Step by Step (0845 300 1089) at £57.95. It
consists of a wooden stand hung round...
Eunice Fitzhenry, head of John Moores University Nursery
24 May 2001
(Photograph) - Eunice Fitzhenry, head of John Moores
University Nursery in Liverpool, was counting on finger puppets from Peru at
the Manchester Under-12s exhibition on 11 and 12 May. A...
MPs think like children for a day
24 May 2001
William Hague thinks television character Bob the
Builder could fix it as an ambassador for children. The Conservative Party
leader was one of nearly 200 MPs to take part in...
In brief...Registered childminders
24 May 2001
Registered childminders in Northern Ireland are to
receive funding for out-of-school care for the first time. The award from the
New Opportunities Fund will enable 109 new places across the...
In brief...Three of the five teachers
24 May 2001
Three of the five teachers at Wee Ones nursery school
in Wandsworth, London, suspected of having tuberculosis (News, 17 May) were
given the all-clear at the end of last week....
Quote of the week
24 May 2001
'As expected, we have already seen a flurry of
photographs of politicians kissing babies and using children as election props.
However, we believe children are citizens who deserve policies which...
