28 February 2002
The Government has been very keen to stress how
important it is to listen to parents' views about smacking, and the results of
various polls of the public are used...
28 February 2002
The head of the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) has
admitted that nannies deemed unsuitable to work with children could still be
able to get jobs with families after the CRB...
28 February 2002
Children in Scotland have joined the debate on physical
punishment by overwhelmingly voting against smacking. More than 90 per cent of
young respondents to a survey conducted by the charity...
28 February 2002
(Photograph) - The distinctive brown uniforms of
Norland nannies will no longer grace the grounds of Denford Park in Hungerford,
Berkshire, once the prestigious 110-year-old Norland College moves from its...
28 February 2002
An Edinburgh scheme to encourage more men into
childcare through free training has proved a success and is set to expand
across Scotland. The Men in Childcare scheme was launched...
28 February 2002
Children have joined the debate on physical punishment
by overwhelmingly voting against smacking. More than 90 per cent of children
rejected the use of physical punishment in a survey conducted...
28 February 2002
A trade union representing nursery nurses has warned
that unless the private sector creates a formal salary scale and career ladder
for them, it will lose well-qualified staff to the...
28 February 2002
'If you are allowed to smack children you should be
allowed to smack geriatrics as well, because they are just as much a nuisance
as children, if not more.' comedian...
28 February 2002
(Photograph) - Four-year-old Gemma Reynold at the
Corner House Nursery in Edinburgh hopes that more men like trainee nursery
assistant Graham Wylie will join him in childcare, following the success...
28 February 2002
The Princess Christian nursery group received a
certificate from the British Red Cross last week for raising £2,650 for
the American and Afghanistan disaster funds set up since 11 September....