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Claims for child maintenance changes

    News
  • Wednesday, October 29, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Changes to the way single parents claim child maintenance mean parents can now choose whether to make their own private arrangements or opt for a statutory arrangement via the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission. The reforms aim to help parents make decisions on the best child maintenance arrangements for them (News, 21 December 2006). Main carers are now also able to keep up to 20 per week of any child maintenance payment before it affects benefits entitlements.

Celebration

    Other
  • Friday, September 6, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Cherry Childcare, based in Surrey, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, celebrates 20 years in nursery care this year.

All the same

    News
  • Wednesday, April 20, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Nursery staff share a parenting course with the mothers and fathers of children in their care so they all receive the same consistent approach, as Joyce Reid explains When Sandra Lipton, headteacher at Nithsdale Road Nursery in Glasgow, wanted to run a parenting course, she decided to make it more effective by asking the staff to attend too. All 11 members of staff covered the course as a group in their own time. Now they find managing children's behaviour much easier, since every child is getting the same consistent approach from every member of staff, and from their parents.

All ears

    News
  • Wednesday, February 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Do the children in your club notice the birds singing? Philip Waters shows you how they can listen carefully. the human ear is a complex and fascinating sensory organ. Like ourother senses, our hearing, or audition, is highly adaptive - it enables us to hear sounds from the faintest of whispers to the collective cacophony of a playing orchestra, from the hum of a bee to the boom of an aeroplane passing through the sound barrier. It is a remarkable sound-catching device.

World Book Day

    News
  • Tuesday, September 28, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Early years settings can now register for free for World Book Day on 3 March 2011.Settings who register before 30 November will receive tailored support materials, including the World Book Day 1 tokens which can be exchanged for children's book, Dr Seuss on the Loose. Register online at www.worldbookday.com.

Cookery corner by The Kids' Cookery School

    News
  • Wednesday, February 13, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Fruity crepes Ingredients for the basic pancake batter ,50g plain flour , small pinch of salt ,50g wholemeal flour ,1 egg ,250ml full fat milk ,50g margarine or oil

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, February 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
'Four out of five adults think children's lives are more perilous than they used to be, when the opposite is true. Britain treats its children harshly. None the less, no country, bar Sweden, is safer'

Come and Play

    News
  • Wednesday, April 13, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Come and Play, the musicworkshop programme for children aged four to 14 run by 4Children, has received 500,000 from the charity Youth Music . The programme is on target to reach 11,000 children in out-of-school clubs.

HR Update - Six steps to good leadership

    Features
  • Friday, September 6, 2013
    • | Nursery World
It's always worth taking the time to reappraise your approach to management and making sure that staff are being recognised, motivated and rewarded appropriately, says Jacqui Mann.

Oral Health Demonstration Project launched

    News
  • Wednesday, February 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Children at Letham Nursery in Perth brush up for the two-year 'Oral Health Demonstration Project' launched by the Scottish Executive, which has set a target for 60 per cent of five-year-olds to have no dental disease by 2010. Nursery nurse Christine Chatila said. 'The children have got quickly into the routine. After snacks, they do their dishes and then brush their teeth. They enjoy showing us how shiny their teeth are afterwards.' Statistics show that more than half - 55 per cent - of children in Scotland have dental disease by the age of five. Photograph by Paul Reid

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, February 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
'Many more well-designed pre-school facilities are needed if the politicians' goal of a "bright, successful Scotland" is to be achieved. Good architecture, after all, is not only for adults' Peter Wilson, director of the Manifesto Foundation for Architecture at Napier University

There were more than a hundred incidents of violence

    News
  • Wednesday, February 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
There were more than a hundred incidents of violence against local authority staff in pre-school education centres in 2001-02, the Scottish Executive announced last week. Incidents in pre-school centres accounted for 2 per cent of the total of 5,412 incidents across Scotland, which includes those reported by primary, secondary and special school staff. The incidents include physical violence, verbal abuse or intentional damage to personal property, and include threatening behaviour with or without a weapon. This is the fourth year that the Scottish Executive has collated data on incidents from all Scotland's local authorities, and the fourth successive increase.

ABC learning centres delay annual financial results for third time

    News
  • Tuesday, November 4, 2008
    • | Nursery World
ABC learning centres, the world's largest daycare provider, has delayed its annual financial results for the third time this year. The Australian company, which owns the Busy Bees nursery chain in the UK, has been beset by financial difficulties and chief executive Eddy Groves left the company in September. Announcing the delay, a company statement said, 'Work continues on finalising the full year result and prior period adjustments arising out of a reassessment of accounting treatments.' It said that its childcare centres would continue to operate as usual.

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