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A fresh stage for the early years recruitment campaign

    News
  • Wednesday, July 2, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A fresh stage of the early years recruitment campaign will get under way this month with adverts on national television alongside a range of local initiatives. According to Sure Start, the new round of advertising 'aims to provide a new national image for the sector - one of a skilled, imaginative, intelligent and competent workforce, and hopes to attract more men, people from ethnic minorities, older people and those with disabilities'. Since the campaign started three years ago, 160,000 people have contacted the national order line for recruitment packs and about 15 per cent of them have found jobs in the sector within six months .

Appropriate reply

    News
  • Wednesday, February 20, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I deeply regret that Pat Field (Letters, 7 February) read my feature 'Sitting uncomfortably' as a blunt criticism of early years practitioners. It certainly was not my intention to 'blame practitioners for not understanding the subtleties in the wording of "as appropriate" that completes the early learning goal of "maintain attention, concentrate and sit quietly...".' I suggested triple-underlining the word in order to highlight how much we all need to discuss and reflect on realistic expectations for young children. Some early years prac- titioners have felt that they should focus on sit-down activities or felt pressured, against their professional judgement, to act as if proper learning only happens indoors. Young children can maintain attention and they can concentrate.

MPs fail to ban smacking

    News
  • Tuesday, October 14, 2008
    • | Nursery World
An attempt by MPs to ban smacking has failed in the House of Commons after no time was left to discuss it adequately.

Editor's view

    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.

Celebration

    Other
  • Friday, September 6, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Cherry Childcare, based in Surrey, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, celebrates 20 years in nursery care this year.

All the same

    News
  • Wednesday, April 20, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Nursery staff share a parenting course with the mothers and fathers of children in their care so they all receive the same consistent approach, as Joyce Reid explains When Sandra Lipton, headteacher at Nithsdale Road Nursery in Glasgow, wanted to run a parenting course, she decided to make it more effective by asking the staff to attend too. All 11 members of staff covered the course as a group in their own time. Now they find managing children's behaviour much easier, since every child is getting the same consistent approach from every member of staff, and from their parents.

All ears

    News
  • Wednesday, February 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Do the children in your club notice the birds singing? Philip Waters shows you how they can listen carefully. the human ear is a complex and fascinating sensory organ. Like ourother senses, our hearing, or audition, is highly adaptive - it enables us to hear sounds from the faintest of whispers to the collective cacophony of a playing orchestra, from the hum of a bee to the boom of an aeroplane passing through the sound barrier. It is a remarkable sound-catching device.

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