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Giving your time - voluntary work abroad

By Patricia Slatcher, Nursery World, 29 June 00, 12:00

A quiet read of Nursery World and one phone call changed 31-year-old Jane Greig's life forever. A few months later, in July 1999, she found herself leaving her job as a hospital play specialist in...

In The Picture - kiddies gallery

By Gayle Goshorn, Nursery World, 29 June 00, 12:00

Art certainly imitates life at the New Art Gallery in Walsall, where a children's section is at the very foundation of a brand-new £21m, Lottery-boosted building that opened in February at the top of ...

Gone Missing - security

By Mary Evans, Nursery World, 29 June 00, 12:00

The advent of summer weather means the season of nursery outings. They need careful planning, losing a child at the zoo or seaside, with the risk of them being abducted, injured or worse, is every nur...

Offer & acceptance - Staff contracts

By Mary Evans, Nursery World, 29 June 00, 12:00

The law sets out very clearly what must be contained in the offer of a staff job, says Mary Evans, and neither side has anything to fear

On a shoestring - community nurseries

By Anne Wiltsher, Nursery World, 29 June 00, 12:00

With subsidised fees, community nurseries are able to make childcare more accessible. But they need secure funding, says Anne Wiltsher

Global visions - video conferencing

By Jenny Benjamin, Nursery World, 22 June 00, 12:00

To the uninitiated, video conferencing is all about earnest business folk in spectacles impressing each other with flipcharts. However, as Arbour Vale School's Global Leap day demonstrated recently, t...

Safe Haven - fearful children

By Juliet Brown, Nursery World, 22 June 00, 12:00

It's easy to feel that children don't worry much. After all, they are spared the usual adult anxieties about paying the mortgage or rent, about jobs, money and relationships. But their worries are ver...

Finding their place

By Mary Evans, Nursery World, 22 June 00, 12:00

The provision of free nursery places for all three-year-olds has been set as a goal by the Government, which has announced it is on course to fulfil its commitment to provide free places for two-third...

Bye Bye Baby - helping new parents

By Mary Evans, Nursery World, 22 June 00, 12:00

Helping parents make the break when leaving their child with a new carer should make life easier for everyone, writes Mary Evans

Finding their place - provision for 3 years old

By Mary Evans, Nursery World, 22 June 00, 12:00

The idea of providing free part-time nursery places for all three-year-olds sounds good, but is it working out in practice? Mary Evans looks at the realities