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Keep up NNI funding, say researchers

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  • Tuesday, April 3, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Neighbourhood Nurseries supporting families in the most disadvantaged areas should have their funding extended to ensure their sustainability, a new report recommends.

Editor's view

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  • Wednesday, March 28, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Any study that finds negative effects for children in daycare is going to be greeted by hysteria on several fronts. The results will be brandished by organisations and individuals, mostly on the political right, seeking ammunition for keeping mothers in the home. Those involved in early years and childcare will, on the whole, be equally vehement about the worth of good- quality childcare. So the latest findings from the American Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (see News, page 4) will cause controversy, especially as the research team includes Professor Jay Belsky of Birkbeck University, whose outspokenness on this issue has raised many hackles in recent years, even among his own colleagues. As Professor Belsky is keen to point out, however, he is only reporting the results. In this case, he is 'truly sorry to say' that the more time children spent in daycare, the more aggressive and disobedient they were rated by teachers - and the quality of care had no mitigating effect.

Wales targets child poverty

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  • Wednesday, February 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Five leading children's charities are urging candidates in the Welsh Assembly elections in May to back a 20-point children's manifesto that has fighting child poverty as its top priority. With the backing of the umbrella organisation Children in Wales, the charities Save the Children, NSPCC, Barnardo's Cymru and NCH have launched a 'coalition of concern' with the help of health minister Jane Hutt.

Izzy's Island

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  • Wednesday, February 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Have you got Tizzy's Toybox in your nursery? If you have, then you may be pleased to know that there is now a follow-up from Sherston Software - Izzy's Island (01666 843200, single user 45, multi-user licences available). Sail away with Izzy and friends to the island where anything can happen.

Childminders vote for more babies

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  • Wednesday, November 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Childminders have voted to be allowed to care for more than one baby at a time. Delegates at the National Childminding Association's annual general meeting in Eastbourne last weekend voted overwhelmingly in support of a proposal that the national standards should be amended to allow childminders to care for more than one child under the age of one.

A big issue

    News
  • Wednesday, February 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Weight problems in young children are on the rise, but you can avoid them with our latest A-Z health guide by doctors at the Great Ormond Street Hospital health guide What is childhood obesity?

Back to basics

    News
  • Wednesday, March 28, 2007
    • | Nursery World
An investigation into work-based learning has uncovered a lack of key skills or study among nursery staff considered qualified at certain NVQ levels. Mary Evans reports The scale of the challenge to transform childcare into a graduate-led profession is underlined by a survey showing that early years advanced apprentices are scoring the worst success rates across the entire work-based learning sector.

On the table

    News
  • Wednesday, March 28, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The most essential household utensils offer a surprising array of learning activities, as Jean Evans demonstrates A project focusing on the familiar and readily available resource of cutlery provides opportunities for developing children's understanding of the properties of materials and promoting their mathematical problem-solving skills.

Star Photo

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  • Monday, January 25, 2016
    • | Nursery World
At Kidsunlimited Sale Day Nursery, children turned into mini architects to build structures including bridges, as part of their recent lessons on construction.

Our responsibility to protect early learning

    News
  • Wednesday, March 28, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Eric Clark's prescient article on toy marketing (Special Report, 15 March) admirably continues the growing global movement against the crass commercialisation of childhood recently highlighted by the 'Compass' report. These pernicious trends are surely substantially responsible for the premature 'adultisation' of children and the profane degradation of childhood, which are blighting the current generation of children. Britain's shocking performance in the recent Unicef report of children's well-being is perhaps the most dramatic symptom of this modern malaise. Especially relevant to early childhood workers is Clark's informed challenge to the technologising of early learning. Early learning is far more effective and appropriate when experienced in real (not 'virtual') human relationships; and it is now clear from Dr Aric Sigman's recent research report that televisual technologies damage young children at many different levels u neurologically, socially, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. We all have a grave responsibility, as parents, professionals and policy-makers, to inform ourselves about the profound harm that this poisonous materialistic culture is doing to young children, and to protect them from its most toxic excesses.

Analysis: Children who kill

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  • Tuesday, February 24, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Troubled child psychology and society's attitudes to malign behaviour are examined by Loretta Loach, author of a new book on young murderers.

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