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Early years specialist Marie Wilson

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  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Early years specialist Marie Wilson saw her book about babies and toddlers, This is me!, launched at the City Hall in Armagh on 1 April. The book is published by NIPPA: The Early Years Organisation and NIPPA chief executive Siobhan Fitzpatrick (right) said it would help parents, childminders and daycare providers to make a 'lasting and positive difference in the early stages of a child's development'.. Photograph by Photo courtesy of NIPPA

Register now for holiday staff

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  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
* Now is the time for anyone in England planning to set up a summer playscheme or recruit new staff to an existing scheme to begin the process of obtaining registration and checking new employees, says Ofsted. The inspection service has warned providers - including those running existing schemes from new premises - that they should not wait until June to apply for registration or delay the process of vetting new staff. An Ofsted spokeswoman said, 'Sufficient time needs to be allowed for checks to be carried out by other organisations such as the Criminal Records Bureau.

Only one in every four women in Northern Ireland is still breastfeeding their baby at six weeks

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  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Only one in every four women in Northern Ireland is still breastfeeding their baby at six weeks, according to a report by the chief medical officer, Dr Henrietta Campbell. The report, Your health matters, said Northern Ireland's breastfeeding rate of 26 per cent was considerably less than that in England and Wales at 43 per cent and Scotland at 40 per cent. Dr Campbell also warned that obesity in children was increasing 'at an alarming rate'. She said, 'It is projected that in 15 to 20 years time, one in five boys and one in three girls will be obese unless drastic action is taken now.'

Nanny agencies split by new organisation

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  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A war of words broke out this week between two organisations representing nanny agencies. The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has criticised the Professional Association of Nursery Nurses (PANN) for its role in creating a new body, the Association of Nanny Agencies (ANA). The new body, which is being administered initially by PANN, has been set up by around 30 agencies covering much of the UK, but is open to wider membership.

IT boost for disabled and refugee children

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  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A1m IT project aimed at transforming the quality of life of disadvantaged children is being piloted by children's charity NCH with the backing of seven major international companies. The Access to IT project, launched earlier this month by schools minister Stephen Twigg and broadcaster Mary Nightingale at the NCH's Warren Park Children's Centre in Kingston, Surrey, is being supported by AOL UK, BAe Systems, BT, Cable and Wireless, Hewlett Packard and Microsoft.

Cash limits will stifle PPA policy, says NUT

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  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Budget constraints will mean that most primary schools in England and Wales will be unable to afford to allow their teachers to spend 10 per cent of their time on preparation under the workload reduction agreement, a report commissioned by the National Union of Teachers has claimed. The NUT was the only union representing school staff to refuse to sign the workload agreement with the Government last year. Its report, published last week, warned that 'all but a handful of primary schools have no preparation, planning and assessment (PPA) time at all'. One school surveyed offered PPA time to its staff, but only on the understanding that they would be available to cover for absent colleagues 'from within this time'.

Big issue

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  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
With childhood obesity levels rising rapidly, Joyce Reid looks at the results of a study on very young children. Your family's assistance would be much appreciated. . . A project at the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen hopes to shed more light on the vexed topic of childhood obesity. The RASCAL (Rowett Assessment of Childhood Appetite and Metabolism) initiative is run by Dr Diane Jackson.

Quote of the week

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  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
'I spent my Easter Sunday eating fish and chips and playing mini-golf at Lowestoft' Education secretary Charles says what he did instead of attending the National Union of Teachers conference for the second year in a row, the Times

Television has escaped blame

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  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Television has escaped blame by parents for their children's bad behaviour in a survey contradicting the conclusions drawn by many professionals. The survey of 1,000 parents, conducted as part of the campaign for the Barney Best Behaviours range of toys and videos, found only one per cent blamed television for behaviour, while 70 per cent believed that bad parenting was the cause. More than 70 per cent of parents said they believed children's manners are not what they used to be and 94 per cent admitted that children learned most of their behaviour from their parents. Welsh children came out best in the survey, with the fewest number of incidents of bad conduct reported. Children in Surrey came top for throwing tantrums, while children in West Sussex were found to be the UK's biggest nose pickers.

Bad housing hurts 'a million children'

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  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
One million children - enough to fill the cities of Manchester, Edinburgh and Bath - live in bad housing conditions in Britain, a report by the charity Shelter has claimed. The report, Toying with the future: the hidden cost of the housing crisis, was published last week to coincide with the launch of the charity's Million Children campaign. It highlights the effects of homelessness and substandard living conditions on children's lives, and Shelter has called on the UK Government, Scottish Executive and Welsh Assembly to commit themselves to 'ending bad housing for the next generation of children'.

National Deaf Children's Society

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  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Advice from education experts and the experience of parents of deaf children come together in a new practical guide, Helping your deaf child to learn, produced by the National Deaf Children's Society. It covers a range of topics including playtime, toys, reading and sharing books, television, video and subtitles, writing, numbers and maths. It suggests that such everyday events as bath time, mealtimes and shopping trips can help to develop deaf children's vocabulary, use of language and understanding of the world around them. Activities such as making jigsaw puzzles, dressing up, and measuring and labelling objects in the home are also useful vehicles to introduce size, shape and concepts such as big and small. Gwen Carr, director of NDCS UK services, said, 'Language is the key to learning not just at school but also in life generally. Friendships and social situations also depend on children knowing what to say and how to say it. This handbook gives valuable tips on how to encourage and nurture those vital language skills.'

John Swinney

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  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - The leader of the Scottish National Party, John Swinney, met striking nursery nurses in Angus last week. The MSP for North Tayside said afterwards, 'I am determined to see that a settlement is reached in this dispute. It is ludicrous that a national settlement is not offered to nursery nurses. If teachers can have a national settlement, why can't our nursery nurses? They provide as vital a service as teachers by preparing our children for later life. It is time the Scottish Executive takes some decisive action on this issue.' Photo Paul Reid

Talking points

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  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Settings must appreciate just how much some children struggle to communicate, say members of the Early Years Intervention Team in Camden, London Children with language difficulties may also experience associated difficulties, in-cluding what might often appear to be non-compliant or challenging behaviour. This was true of Freddie, Samira and Mohammed who exhibited very different types of behaviour in their settings but all were found to have underlying language difficulties.

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