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Nanny register is long overdue

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  • Wednesday, April 16, 2003
    • | Nursery World
BY Alison Dady (nee Wardley), a registered childminder who is a former Royal nanny On 3 April I sat down to watch the ITV programme 'Who's Looking After Your Child?'. What I saw confirmed a long-held opinion of mine - the overdue need for a national register of nannies.

Three little pigs

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  • Wednesday, April 10, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Switch on to ICT Besides pointing out the benefits of sound structural engineering - bricks beat straw! - these activities are a fun way to help literacy and creative development. They are based on the Pigbox kit from the Computer Kids website on www.computerkidsonline.com. The kit contains a collection of language and literacy activities linked to the story of the Three Little Pigs. Children use a story-box template to prepare - with your help - their own written version of the traditional story and colouring templates to prepare stand-up characters for oral storytelling.

Dig deep

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  • Wednesday, May 16, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Role-play ideas based on digging and discovering 1 Going underground

A new 1.6m children's centre

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  • Wednesday, April 4, 2007
    • | Nursery World
A new 1.6m children's centre has been dedicated to a Lancashire councillor, Frank Gorton, who recently died at age 81 after 46 years of service to the area. Little Harwood Children's Centre is the twelfth to open in the Blackburn and Darwen area and will provide childcare and nursery education as well as outreach and family support.

All inclusive

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  • Wednesday, April 12, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Welcoming a child with special needs to a club may cause anxiety for the child and parents and lead staff to question their skills. Andrea Clifford-Poston offers advice on managing this process ten-year-old Sarah had long wanted to join the after school club with her younger brother. Although her cerebral palsy meant she had indistinct speech and used a wheelchair, she had always attended mainstream school with the support of a non-teaching assistant.

Special Needs in Early Years Settings

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  • Wednesday, April 10, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Special Needs in Early Years Settings:a guide for practitioners. By Collette Drifte. (David Fulton, 14, 020 7405 5606) Reviewed by Julie Vaggers, head teacher, Rowland Hill Centre for Childhood, Tottenham, London.

Making contact

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  • Wednesday, December 18, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A list of all the organisations and charities mentioned in Training Today, along with their addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and websites All Together Training and Consultancy

Sounds good

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  • Tuesday, March 4, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Babies and toddlers don't need to be stimulated into awareness of different sounds, just left to hear them naturally, says Jennie Lindon

Consultation on over-sevens

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  • Wednesday, April 10, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Playworkers may like to contribute to a consultation paper on a scheme to regulate care for children aged eight and over. The paper is available on www.dfes.gov.uk/consultations/eyacr/ and the deadline is 24 May 2002. At present, care for children over seven is not regulated under the national care standards and the Government is concerned that unscrupulous providers might choose to work only with older children in order to avoid checks. It is proposing a 'light-touch' certification scheme, administered by Ofsted, with the main emphasis on ensuring the suitability of those working with children.

Use your imagination

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  • Tuesday, December 17, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Role play brings children the same benefits outdoors as when it is done indoors, says Penny Tassoni . Show parents its value with this cut-out-and-photocopy guide

Quote of the week

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  • Wednesday, February 26, 2003
    • | Nursery World
'Fruit, particularly in the early years of primary, was seen as important. Much like early intervention in literacy and numeracy, it establishes a taste for it' Michael O'Neill, director of education for North Lanarkshire and chair of the expert panel on school meals that recommended the introduction of free fruit for all primary school children

Tax frauds put mothers behind bars

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  • Wednesday, May 23, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Two mothers have been jailed for making false claims about their childcare costs. Samantha Mills of Port Talbot, Wales, received more than 54,000 in tax credits to which she was not entitled. She claimed working tax credit, said her childcare costs had increased, said that three of her children were disabled, and applied for a childcare grant for two children, despite being advised she could not claim the grant while in receipt of working tax credits. She forged the signature of a nursery manager to say four of her children attended nursery, when in fact only one of her children did.

Free fruit for all

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  • Wednesday, February 26, 2003
    • | Nursery World
All pupils in the first two years of primary school are to receive free fruit through a package of measures designed to introduce children to the importance of a healthy balanced diet from an early age. The Scottish Executive has awarded local authorities a total of 63.5m to implement the initiative, which also includes making fresh, chilled drinking water available in school dining rooms, and setting new nutrient standards for school meals.

Four-year-olds 'know how they learn'

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  • Wednesday, May 23, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Children as young as four are able to understand how they learn, according to new research. Researchers say that findings from the latest phase of a seven-year project conducted by the education charity Campaign for Learning, released on Monday, show that very young children are able to express their understanding of how to learn.

Out-of-school club provider in cash query

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  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009
    • | Nursery World
One of the largest out-of-school providers in the country is being investigated by the Charity Commission for an illegal donation to the Labour Party.

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