Nursery World - Vote for the best!

Look around at some exceptional workers and settings, and put them up for a prize, says Anne Wiltsher reports Watching brown trout in Loch Lomond is a fine thing to do after school, especially if you live in the middle of Glasgow. And that's just what Denis Barrowcliffe, last year's Playworker of the Year in the Excellence in Childcare Awards, organised for children at the CASC Childcare Project in the Castlemilk area of the city. A quietly spoken man, he also ran an animation video project for eight ten-to 12-year-olds as one of his imaginative indoor after-school activities.

Watching brown trout in Loch Lomond is a fine thing to do after school, especially if you live in the middle of Glasgow. And that's just what Denis Barrowcliffe, last year's Playworker of the Year in the Excellence in Childcare Awards, organised for children at the CASC Childcare Project in the Castlemilk area of the city. A quietly spoken man, he also ran an animation video project for eight ten-to 12-year-olds as one of his imaginative indoor after-school activities.

This year, the Excellence in Childcare Awards, run by the Kids' Clubs Network in association with Nursery World and Prima magazines and supported by the DfEE, wants to recognise childcarers of equal calibre. The awards will be sponsored by Pearl, jmc, Asda and Nestle, which are donating generous holiday and cash prizes. And there will also be a new category for nominations - Prima Childcarer of the Year. Winners will receive their awards and prizes at a glamorous gala dinner at London's Savoy Hotel on 26 June, during Kids' Clubs Week. Now is the time to send in your nominations, before 11 May, for the people you'd like to see win awards in the categories below.

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