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Sick note

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  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Looking after an unwell child is a case of practical preparation, says Lorna Clark, a nanny in Hampshire Young children are often seen by health professionals, and visits range from a check-up with the health visitor to emergency hospital admissions.

Julia Common, manager of Brambles Childcare Centre in Amble, Northumberland

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  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Julia Common, manager of Brambles Childcare Centre in Amble, Northumberland, attended a reception at 10 Downing Street earlier this month held by the Prime Minister and his wife to recognise the contribution of childcare workers. She said, 'It was a fantastic opportunity, and I was proud to be there to represent everyone involved with Brambles Childcare.'

Lord Filkin swaps roles with former Sure Start minister Baroness Cathy Ashton

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  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A new minister was appointed at the Department for Education and Skills on 9 September. Lord Filkin has swapped roles with former Sure Start minister Baroness Cathy Ashton, who was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary at the Department for Constitutional Affairs. Lord Filkin, whose responsibilities have yet to be decided, was given the new title of minister for education and skills.

All in the family

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  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Nannying has been the mainstay for a family of professional childcarers well supplied with work by Helen Kewley When a really capable nanny comes to my agency and takes a job and employers think she is wonderful, it is great to find out that she has a sister who wants to work in childcare. But only once have I encountered a family of five such girls.

Show you care

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  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
How can parents be sure that a nursery's staff members are responsible and caring? Liz Fox hears why it is the manager's job to ensure they can expect the best practice In recent weeks media attention has been firmly focused on Britain's nurseries. Few can have missed the BBC1 documentary 'Nurseries Undercover'

Unlock the imagination

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  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Develop children's awareness of the role of keys and locks in everyone's lives using these fun activities from Jane Drake Adult-led activities

Marjorie Boxall

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  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The pioneering educational psychologist Marjorie Boxall died earlier this month at the age of 81. She was ahead of her time in developing a strategy for helping children with emotional and behavioural difficulties to prepare for mainstream schooling. Known then and now as 'nurture groups', such strategies have flourished and there are more than 300 across Britain today.

The winner is...

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  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The first-ever Professional Nanny of the Year is Louise Kirk, who is 24 and works in London. The quality of entrants was high for the award, newly created by the Professional Association of Nursery Nurses. You can read more about Louise in our next issue and have a chance to meet her when the award is presented at the Professional Nanny conference on 2 October at the Business Design Centre in London. Tickets at 20 for this unmissable event are available from the hotline on 01923 690 646 or at www.teachingexhibitions.co.uk.

Paste it!

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  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Get great results from simple art ingredients, says Hilary White Papier mache is a simple craft technique that can be used for making bowls, masks and even a Mexican pi$ata for party games. Children of all ages can join in and everything you need can be found in the home.

Visionary hopes for provision

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  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
By 2015 children's centres could be available to nearly all families, children would stay there until they start school at six and there would be fewer private day nurseries and childminders, according to a leading early years academic's vision. Setting out his hopes for the development of holistic 'children's spaces', Peter Moss, professor of early childhood provision at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, says that in ten years time children's centres could be recognised as 'a world-class system of services for all our children'.

Nursery is sued over treatment of child

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  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A mother is suing a private nursery in Renfrewshire over allegations of an assault on her son four years ago. Lorraine Melrose from Paisley claims that her son, Shaun, was 'dragged for 50 feet by his arm and thrown into a room with the door slammed shut' by staff employed by Daleguide Nursery Ltd (as reported in The Scotsman, 15 September).

Mothers and babies enjoy a baby massage session at Ingrow Primary School in Keighley, West Yorkshire

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  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Mothers and babies enjoy a baby massage session at Ingrow Primary School in Keighley, West Yorkshire. The school has teamed up with Airedale Primary Care Trust to set up a new group to develop parenting skills in new mothers. Baby massage and 'pampering for mums' are on offer as part of a six-session programme at the school which also aims to give mothers an opportunity to meet new people and develop closer links with the school and with health visitors. Photo Guzelian

The caring majority

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  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
I too watched the 'Nurseries Undercover' programme with dismay. I was horrified that people who choose to work with children could treat them in such a contemptuous way. I trained in childcare for two years in 1974 and since then have worked in various settings. I am now undertaking the ADCE qualification as well as working part-time as a nanny and I have just started the franchise of a nanny agency in East Sussex.

Childcarers ask for Ofsted partnership

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  • Thursday, September 16, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Early years organisations and practitioners have broadly welcomed Ofsted's plans for minimal notice inspections, a new grading system and greater reliance on self-evaluation and quality assurance schemes.

Key theories: Talk it through

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  • Thursday, September 16, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The leading theories about how young children acquire and develop language, and how early years workers can use them, are outlined by Tricia David

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