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So inclined

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  • Wednesday, April 28, 2004
    • | Nursery World
How can you respond to the temperaments that children seem to have been born with, while resisting the urge to expect them to behave that way? Jennie Lindon explains When you are closely involved with children, you soon realise that they are very different individuals. You may be careful to behave in a fair way to each child in your charge. But daily experiences tell you that it would not work to try to act in exactly the same way.

By appointment

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  • Wednesday, April 28, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Competition to attract and retain good quality early years workers is set to become fiercer. So, says June O'Sullivan, it pays to put staff training at the top of a setting's agenda There is no doubt that the early years sector faces a recruitment and retention issue. There has been a 94 per cent growth in the sector since 1997, increasing competition for staff in an already squeezed sector. In the last year 59 per cent of nurseries had trouble recruiting.

Under and over

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  • Wednesday, April 28, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Stay on top and get to the bottom of things as our series on movement by Jean Evans goes over and under The practitioner's role

Wages to live on

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  • Wednesday, April 28, 2004
    • | Nursery World
I'm glad that someone has thought about the issue of affordable housing for nursery nurses ('Nursery staff need homes', 1 April). Our wages are so low that we can't afford to get our foot on the property ladder, yet our job is such an important one. We care for children in the first few years of their lives and we should be paid the wage we are worth.

What do you know?

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  • Wednesday, April 28, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Find out how you can enhance your understanding of early years practice in some stimulating seminars. Nicole Curnow looks at what's on offer Effective practice to highlight that birth to three matters Saturday 15 May, 10am to 3pm

Support staff offered contract blueprint

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  • Wednesday, April 28, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The final touches to a possible blueprint for local authorities in England and Wales negotiating the pay and conditions of school support staff have been put together between union negotiators and Birmingham City Council.

Three high-profile speakers will address Early Education's national conference

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  • Wednesday, April 28, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Three high-profile speakers will address Early Education's national conference in Wigan on 7 and 8 May on the theme of 'Nurturing free spirits: creating a climate for creativity'. They are Jenny Mosley, known for her work in developing quality circle time; Julie Fisher, author of the highly acclaimed book Starting from the child: Teaching and learning from three to eight; and Rob Long, a chartered educational psychologist who works with children with emotional and behavioural difficulties and runs professional development courses for the National Union of Teachers. For more information, contact Jenny Rabin at Early Education on 020 7539 5400.

Portraits of family life on show

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  • Wednesday, April 28, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Children's artwork that celebrates the diversity of family life goes on display in Edinburgh this summer, writes Liz Fox. An exhibition organised by Family Mediation Scotland, featuring 100 drawings and paintings by children aged four to 12, will run at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery from 17 June. The exhibition will culminate with the charity's first-ever Families Day on 29 August, celebrating 20 years of family mediation in Scotland. A spokesman said, 'Many families are made up differently - stepfamilies are on the increase, and other family members may take an important caring role. We wanted people to feel positive about the family they live in, however it is made up.'

Tax break could cost parents

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  • Wednesday, April 28, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Thousands of working parents could find themselves out of pocket next year when the Government's much-heralded 50 a week tax and national insurance break on employer-supported childcare comes into operation. The Inland Revenue conceded last week that nearly one in three basic rate taxpayers currently claiming exemption on the national insurance of a chunk of their salary when they forgo it in return for childcare vouchers could be adversely affected. Employers will be hit, too, as they lose on the savings they have been making on their national insurance contributions (NICs).

Financial headache

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  • Wednesday, April 28, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Britons owe more money than ever, and the childcare sector is going to feel the crunch when it comes, as Simon Vevers explains The Bank of England kept interest rates at 4 per cent last month, but, according to a Reuters survey, many leading economists believe that a further hike in rates of at least half a per cent is inevitable in the immediate future. The reason? To try to curb Britain's burgeoning domestic debt. There has been a blizzard of statistics in the past month warning that by the summer, the total personal UK debt will be around one trillion - that is, one thousand billion pounds.

'Silver spoon' campaign

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  • Wednesday, April 28, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Barnardo's controversial 'silver spoon' campaign of last autumn has earned the distinction of being the most complained about press advertisement in the history of the Advertising Standards Authority. In its report for 2003, published last week, the ASA said 475 people had complained about the first of four advertisements, a computer manipulated photograph that showed a cockroach in the mouth of a newborn baby (above). The complaints were upheld on the grounds that 'the charity had used unduly shocking images of babies to attract attention that were likely to cause serious or widespread offence'. The ASA also upheld a complaint made by a father about promotional postcards sent to schools by Letts Education. The postcards said, 'I am a wimp' and 'I am a big wuss', and instructed pupils to stick them on the backs of friends who did not 'have the bottle for the Letts challenge'. The ASA said they were irresponsible and might encourage bullying. Last year the ASA received 14,277 complaints about 10,754 advertisements.

Traditional playground games

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  • Wednesday, April 28, 2004
    • | Nursery World
More children in Britain are turning to traditional playground games such as skipping, marbles and hula hoops, a survey by Tesco has found. The supermarket chain said that sales of its classic skipping rope had risen by 59 per cent in the past year and that it was also becoming more popular with boys, while sales of marbles were up 46 per cent and hula hoops 21 per cent. Tesco spokesman Joe Church said, 'Customer research has shown that more and more families are buying skipping ropes for boys as well as girls. Images of their sporting heroes on television have helped make the skipping rope more masculine. It's clear that parents have taken on board what their grandparents have been saying for ages - that when they were young they had fun in simple ways and seemed to be much fitter.'

School council at Oyster Park Infants School

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  • Wednesday, April 28, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Pupils belonging to the school council at Oyster Park Infants School in Ferry Fryston in Yorkshire saw how the grown-ups do it at a council meeting at Wakefield County Hall on 21 April. The children's questions had impressed Wakefield District's Mayor and Mayoress, Councillor David Atkinson and Sheila Atkinson, when they visited the school, prompting an exchange visit. Oyster Park headteacher Jean Hirst said, 'The children elected ten class members to be on the school council, complete with a chair and secretary, as one of our targets for Wakefield Healthy Schools Project. It is proving very interesting and gives the children a voice in making decisions on such issues as playground equipment. The Mayor said, 'It was great meeting these young people. As young as they are, they take their new duties very seriously.'

'Give the mother's time off to father'

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  • Wednesday, April 28, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Fathers should be given a 'share' of mothers' maternity leave, according to an economics academic. The call was made last week by Paul Gregg, professor of economics at Bristol University, following research he conducted with Elizabeth Washbrook of Oxford University that showed that fathers could play a key role in their children's early education. The researchers found that where fathers had shouldered 25 per cent of the caring burden, including bathing, feeding, reading stories and singing songs, their children performed 2 per cent better in national curriculum tests for maths and English at the age of seven.

Unison backs off call for national pay deal

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  • Wednesday, April 28, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Unison's chief negotiators have been forced to back down in their fight for a national pay settlement for Scotland's nursery nurses. At a meeting last week the public services trade union agreed that it would be investigating offers across local authorities in an attempt to end the dispute, which began on 1 March. Local pay deals have already been agreed with 15 of Scotland's 32 local authorities. The latest to settle are East Dunbartonshire, Midlothian and North Lanarkshire.

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