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Quality childcare - is it all in the stars?
I wonder just how the Government's proposed star ratings for childcare (News,29 March) will be measured. Will there be a league table? Will we be judged on the quality of our carpets or our cuddles,...
Stop the drain from nurseries
By Lindsay Osman, childcare manager at YMCA Fairthorne Manor in Curdridge, near Southampton I have worked in childcare in education, social services and the voluntary and private sectors for 16 year...
Nice for some
Further to the eight-page pull-out section on outdoor play (5 April), I found parts of the section very informative and some of the ideas very useful. However, I work in a playgroup setting and can ...
Value added
I agree with the findings of the Professional Association of Nursery Nurses (PANN) survey that we nursery nurses are undervalued in the workplace (News, 19 April). Our salaries alone reflect this, ...
Source for salaries
I agree that pay in the early years sector is low, but where is the money to come from to improve the situation? As a private day nursery our staff wages are paid for by fee-paying parents. If fees ...
Verify the position
I was most surprised to read your Letter of the Week ('NVQ 3 training derailed by lack of assessors', 19 April). The writer has been misinformed by her college.
Courses and conferences
5 June Transition to Ofsted
TV and radio
20 May 'New Shoots, Old Tips' (BBC Radio 4, 2.45 to 3pm)
Editor's view
Organising a topic on My home may appear deceptively simple but, as this issue of Nursery Topics will show, it is a project that needs a lot of planning and is a subject that has to be dealt with se...
The topic at a glance
Areas of learning Nursery Topics - My home covers all six areas of learning in the English early years curriculum, but it can be easily adapted to suit the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish curricu...
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- Nursery Nurse, Working Mums
- £14,000-£15,000, East Sheen, London
- Early Years Practitioner / Nursery Nurse, Fortune Green Nursery Limited
- Starting Salary £17,000 pa, West Hampstead, NW6 (North London)
- Childminding Quality Improvement Partner - One year fixed term contract, National Childminding Association
- £21,369 inc OLW, Feltham
- Nursery Manager, Caleeda Limited
- £25000-£28000, South East England, Kent
- Special Needs Teaching Assistant, Protocol Education
- negotiable, London



