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Understaffed

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  • Wednesday, February 13, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Why are childminders allowed sole charge of up to six children? A day nursery would have to provide two members of staff to care for one child, let alone six. Childminders should have to employ an assistant when caring for other people's children. This would provide a safety net for the children if the childminder should become ill or was in an unfit state to care for the children in her home.

Project to brush up dental health

    News
  • Wednesday, February 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A new scheme aims to tackle Scotland's appalling dental health statistics by setting up a toothbrushing project in every nursery. At present, by the age of five, 55 per cent of Scottish children have dental disease and over a quarter of a million teeth are extracted from Scottish children each year. The Scottish Executive's white paper, Towards a Healthier Scotland, published in 1999, set a target of 60 per cent of five-year-olds with no experience of dental disease by 2010.

Tower Hamlets Council

    News
  • Wednesday, November 22, 2006
    • | Nursery World
* Tower Hamlets Council in London has received top marks for children's services from both Ofsted and the Commission for Social Care Inspection. It was awarded four stars for children's education, four stars for children's social care and four stars for its capacity to get even better.

Audit Commission study

    News
  • Tuesday, November 4, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Children's trusts that were created by the Children Act in 2004 following the inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbie have made little difference to children's services, an Audit Commission study has found. Trusts often lack clear direction and have made slow progress, with 'little evidence of better outcomes for children and young people', the Commission said. It said the trusts were still 'bedding down', but called for children and young people to have more say in how services are designed.

Series guide

    News
  • Wednesday, April 13, 2005
    • | Nursery World
To deliver the Foundation Stage curriculum effectively, practitioners need to consider three levels of planning: * long-term plans, which chart the learning opportunities that will be offered through continuous and permanent provision

Puffins Childcare Centres

    News
  • Wednesday, February 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Puffins Childcare Centres is celebrating being re-recognised under the Investor in People scheme, which the company has held since 1996. The IiP's assessor said, 'Puffins demonstrated quite clearly and without any doubt that it continues to satisfy the national standard. Puffins' owners, Maureen Guard and Rosalind Taylor, said they were 'delighted' by this endorsement of their commitment to staff development at their nurseries in Exeter and Torbay. They added that they believe staff development to be 'the most effective way to maintain the quality of care received by the children, which provided staff with professional development opportunities'. The IiP award is based on four key principles for people development.

Appeal by 'Blue Peter' to help set up breakfast clubs

    News
  • Tuesday, November 4, 2008
    • | Nursery World
A new appeal by the BBC children's programme 'Blue Peter' is aiming to help set up breakfast clubs in the UK as well as in Bangladesh, Colombia and South Africa. 'Blue Peter' editor Tim Levell said, 'We hope that Mission Nutrition will present a real opportunity for children to understand more about food - where it comes from, how to grow their own, what is healthy and what the challenges are to eating well for children around the world. We want to put two million meals on plates.' More information is available at www.missionnutrition.org.uk.

Donna Agnew, age 21, of Kilrea, Co Londonderry

    News
  • Wednesday, February 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Donna Agnew, age 21, of Kilrea, Co Londonderry, is this year's winner of the Causeway Institute of Further and Higher Education's Early Years Cup, sponsored by Nursery World. Donna, a BTec National Diploma student in childhood studies at the Institute's Ballymoney campus, achieved distinctions in all units and works as a classroom assistant in Kilrea Primary School. She celebrated with course tutor Norma McKinney (centre) and Aine Lynch, course co-ordinator and head of health, social care and catering.

Reception staff in redundancy fight

    News
  • Wednesday, February 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Nursery nurses working in reception classes have mounted a campaign to fight their local authority's plans to make them redundant. A consultation paper sent to headteachers in the London borough of Hounslow in the last week of January put forward proposals to cut the budget for reception units by 990,000 and fund reception at the same rate as year one. In practice this would require the withdrawal of nursery nurses from early years teams and affect 97 nursery nurse jobs. The consultation period ends on 15 February.

Case study: Freshfield Nursery

    News
  • Wednesday, April 13, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The manager of Freshfield Nursery, Mrs Quinton, heard one four-year-old child refer to rice at lunchtime as 'chinky food'. Although she was already developing a strategy for equality in the nursery, this incident made her rethink her work on food. She decided to visit two local shops that sell foods different from each other - one owned by Mrs Elliott and the other by Mr Shah - hoping that the experience would enable the children, from various ethnic backgrounds, to understand each other's lives better.

Nursery rhymes

    News
  • Tuesday, March 1, 2011
    • | Nursery World
A survey by children's communication charity I CAN found that 83 per cent of the 2,000 parents surveyed agreed that nursery rhymes are important as they are passed down the generations, as did 96 per cent of the 1,000 grandparents who were questioned.

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