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Resources Windfall

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  • Monday, March 5, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Thanks to a successful grant from the Big Lottery Fund of just under £10,000, Marcham Pre-school near Abingdon in Oxfordshire has received a range of new resources.

Fathers welcomed with nursery advice

    News
  • Wednesday, September 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A new support pack has been designed to help early years settings involve fathers in their children's activities. Involving Fathers in Child and Family Services offers practical suggestions on how to develop father-friendly services. Produced by Strathclyde University's childhood and families research and development centre, the pack contains an audit that practitioners can use to assess how welcoming nurseries and family centres are to fathers.

Going for gold

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  • Wednesday, September 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The DCE has been hailed as the gold standard of childcare education, but is it at risk of losing its lustre? Mary Evans reports The two-year Diploma in Childcare and Education is often hailed as the gold standard of childcare qualifications, but even though more students are enrolling on DCE courses this term, some observers wonder if they really are on to a winner.

Three defeats in the House of Lords for Government education reforms

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  • Wednesday, July 10, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Government education reforms suffered three defeats in the House of Lords last week. The Lords rejected proposals to allow school governing bodies to form companies, plans to cut red tape in schools and a move to endorse school forums. However, a spokeswoman for the Department for Education and Skills said proposals were still intact to allow schools to provide childcare and other services, contained in clause 26 of the Education Bill, entitled 'The power of governing bodies to provide community facilities', and the plans had passed scrutiny in the Lords.

The delivery of parenting programmes in local communities

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  • Wednesday, September 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The delivery of parenting programmes in local communities will be debated at a Sure Start conference in Edinburgh on 7 September. Delegates to the conference can learn about the various parenting programmes within the city and hear about examples of best practice, followed by a discussion of priorities for the future. The conference, at Heriot Watt University, is aimed at anyone working in the field of health or social care, and those delivering parenting programmes within the community. Limited spaces are still available. Contact John Heywood at Edinburgh's Childcare Partnership on 0131 270 6065.

Nursery backers on war footing

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  • Wednesday, July 10, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Childcarers and parents are being summoned to a 'council of war' to step up their campaign to prevent the closure of a local council nursery and one o'clock club. The local authority in the London Borough of Hackney decided on 24 June to shut the St John's Nursery, despite acknowledging that it has a full complement of 45 children and is located in a prime site in the centre of Hackney.

Storing resources

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  • Wednesday, June 15, 2005
    • | Nursery World
In last month's storing resources feature, a picture caption incorrectly stated that Mill Hill Nursery is in London. The nursery pictured is located in Doxford Park, Sunderland.

Nursery activities

    News
  • Wednesday, January 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Pat Johnson is the pre-school supervisor at Woodham Burn Pre-school Learning Centre, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. She spoke to Jean Evans. Our pre-school art gallery

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