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Paying for checks

    News
  • Wednesday, November 16, 2005
  • | Nursery World
Taking Ofsted out of the loop on Criminal Records Bureau checks was a sensible move. Rather less sensible is the recent announcement that the DfES subsidy which pays for CRB checks on daycare staff will not apply to repeat checking. Any person moving from one setting to another will have a new check paid for out of public funds. But settings that want to check their staff regularly - which is purely voluntary - will have to fork out 50 a time, plus VAT which they cannot recover.

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, April 16, 2003
  • | Nursery World
Schools across the country are up in arms about shortfalls in their budget allocations which, they say, mean that it will be impossible for them to implement the Workload Reduction Agreement, with massive implications for teachers and teaching assistants (see News, page 4). The problems are not surprising if we look at what has already been happening where improved pay and career structures have been agreed for nursery nurses and classroom assistants. In some areas, an attractive-looking pay scale and grading structure has been rendered more-or-less meaningless because budgets dictate that no-one is being put on the higher grades and new posts are all being advertised at the bottom of the scale.

Freedom is the vital ingredient

    News
  • Wednesday, November 9, 2005
  • | Nursery World
In my previous column I used the analogy of food to argue that a poor diet of activities in children's free time is just as bad for them as junk food. But what does a balanced diet of 'middle years' childhood experiences look like?

Liberton Nursery

    News
  • Wednesday, April 16, 2003
  • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Maggie Adamson came face to face with a troll during a performance of the 'Three Billy Goats Gruff' at Liberton Nursery in Edinburgh. Workshops and shows are taking place across Scotland as part of the twentieth Puppet Animation Festival, the UK's oldest and largest performing arts festival for children. For more information contact the Puppet Animation Festival at the MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling, on 01786 467155, or e-mail puppetanimation@stir.ac.uk. Photograph by Paul Reid

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