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    News
  • Wednesday, February 13, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The Government's need to tackle secondary education in its second term of office is obviously pressing, but its feeling that the early years sector is now all hunky-dory - education secretary Estelle Morris saying, 'We delivered and it worked' - should be resisted. The early years sector is at a crucial stage of development. Among the issues that still need to be given attention and funding is the recruitment crisis - just where are all the people to staff the expansion going to come from, and how are they going to be paid the kind of money that will keep them? There's the confusing array of funding streams that early years managers are spending way too much time trying to access, and the debate over how the early years partnerships should be working.

Provision rises and spreads

    News
  • Wednesday, July 2, 2003
    • | Nursery World
One in five children aged under eight now have access to a registered childcare place, according to Ofsted - but increased provision has also led to falling occupancy levels in day nurseries and fears for their future sustainability. The first figures produced by the inspection service show a marked improvement in levels of provision, compared with the one in seven chance of getting a childcare place that was shown in the 2001 Children's Day Care Facilities statistics published by the Department for Education and Skills.

Council cuts hit family centres

    News
  • Wednesday, April 20, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Two family support centres in Wiltshire have had their budgets slashed in half following a borough council's cost-cutting measures. On 1 April the Walcot Family Centre and the Welcome Family Centre in Swindon received only 25,000 for their annual 50,000 social services budgets. The decision came just months after funding for a new children's centre in the same location was secured.

A Parent's Guide to ... Literacy

    Features
  • Friday, September 28, 2012
    • | Nursery World
As a parent, literacy is probably the area that you are most determined for your child to succeed in. It is important, both in school and in life, and being able to read and write confidently and fluently are vital skills that we all need.

A Unique Child Nutrition: Waste not!

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 14, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Food costs are soaring, yet a third of the food we buy still gets thrown away. Mary Whiting offers tips on cutting waste and costs for nurseries and parents alike while ensuring children still eat well.

Results of survey by Family and Parenting Institute

    News
  • Tuesday, October 21, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Parents want more say about tax credits and family benefits, according to the first survey from an online venture launched by the Family and Parenting Institute to coincide with Parents' Week (20-26 October). The charity said Family Voice will act as a 'megaphone' for families to have their say on important matters, which will be used in campaigns to challenge Government. In the first survey, 67 per cent of parents wanted to tell the Government what would work well for them with regards to benefits and tax credits. FPI director of communications Sally Gimson, said, 'We want to take the voice of families to policy makers and politicians so they are in touch with how policies affect their everyday lives.' Visit www.familyandparenting.org/familyvoice.

Free childcare for teenage parents

    News
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Students aged between 16 and 19 in England who become parents are to be given up to 15,000 over three years towards their childcare costs. The Government initiative Care to Learn?, which begins next month, is for young parents - either mothers or fathers - who attend sixth form school or further education colleges or are in work-based learning. The Department for Education and Skills will pay up to 5,000 per child each year towards the costs of all types of registered childcare to enable their parents to learn, study or train for employment and let them retain a childcare place during the holidays.

The Scottish Out-of-School Care Network has moved offices

    News
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The Scottish Out-of-School Care Network has moved offices. Its new address is Level 2, 100 Wellington Street, Glasgow G2 6DH (tel: 0141 564 1284, fax 0141 564 1286, e-mail info@soscn.org). There are also new contact details for Play Scotland, the Scotland-wide organisation that promotes and supports children's play, at Midlothian Innovation Centre, Pentlandfield, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RE (tel: 0131 440 9070, fax 0131 440 9071, website www.playscotland.org).

Case study: Chichester Nursery School

    News
  • Wednesday, April 20, 2005
    • | Nursery World
It's not just the doormat with its 'Welcome to Chichester Nursery School' message that signals a warm welcome for parents and children at this West Sussex school.

Safety fears have made playgrounds 'boring'

    News
  • Wednesday, October 29, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Local authorities have been accused of dull, unimaginative playgrounds because of an over-reliance on an identical 'KFC' approach ('kit, fence and carpet') to play, which has grown out of the pressure to minimise risk.

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.

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