18 October 2001
We're delighted this week to be publishing our first
ever supplement on out-of-school care, free with Nursery World. This dynamic
area of childcare is growing fast, with New Opportunities Fund...
18 October 2001
Apublic services union representing nursery nurses has
given a London local education authority until the end of the month to abandon
its plans to axe uniform pay and conditions for...
18 October 2001
(Photograph) - A Merseyside nursery has lost all its
records and equipment after being set ablaze by fireworks. Mary Valle Nursery
in Tower Hill, Kirkby, went up in flames on...
18 October 2001
(Photograph) - Catherine Barnes (left), a second-year
CACHE Diploma in Nursery Nursing student at Derby Tertiary College, has won the
second Heinemann Childcare Student of the Year Award. Mrs Barnes...
18 October 2001
Pressure on general practitioners to meet Government
immunisation targets has led some to suggest that unvaccinated children should
be banned from going to a day nursery. Doctors who are struggling...
18 October 2001
Childcare for lone fathers was addressed by delegates
at a conference in London last week by the single parents group Gingerbread.
The charity's Margaret Creear called on employers to help...
18 October 2001
The lack of good-quality, affordable childcare was
pinpointed as the biggest barrier preventing lone parents from working in a
report by Ireland's National Economic and Social Forum. The report said,...
18 October 2001
'One moment I was an acceptable member of society, the
next I was a stigmatised lone parent.' A man whose wife died when his child was
aged 17 months, speaking...
18 October 2001
(Photograph) - Parishioners from St Andrew's Anglican
Church in Kirkby, Merseyside, hold a prayer meeting outside the building, where
premises for the Mary Valle Nursery were destroyed on 2 October...
18 October 2001
The Scottish Parliament's move to introduce childcare
vouchers for MSPs and staff has been praised for setting a good example - but it
has also drawn fire because many businesses...