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Baby time

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  • Wednesday, March 1, 2006
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - South Korean student Yeono Hur reads to one-year-old Theo Dean at Upperthorpe Library's 'Baby Time' session in Sheffield. Yeono and two other students, Hyeyoung Kim and Jihyeon Kang, won a Seoul University competition with their project on Sheffield Bookstart. The university funded their visit to Britain so they could complete a report on the work of Sheffield libraries. Their trip included visits to several local libraries where they joined in singalongs, read with children and found out more about Bookstart and early years work. Photo Roger Moody/Guzelian

Childcare staff score lower on awareness of Every Child Matters

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  • Wednesday, March 1, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Childcare staff score lower on awareness of Every Child Matters than local government workers, at 69 per cent and 90 per cent respectively, according to a survey published by the DfES last week. Children's Workforce Research found that childcare workers had the least awareness of Every Child Matters among professionals working across 26 job types in health, schools, youth justice, residential care and childcare. A total of 600 childcare practitioners working in private, maintained and voluntary sector settings and childminding were involved in the survey. Download the report at www.dfes.gov.uk.

Editor's view

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  • Wednesday, February 28, 2001
    • | Nursery World
As the days get longer and brighter, and spring is in the air, you could well start to notice that your setting is in need of sprucing up. Perhaps your paintwork is peeling, your carpet is wearing thin, and your equipment is looking old or damaged. Nursery World will come to the rescue of one lucky nursery or pre-school, with our brilliant competition to win a complete makeover including equipment worth over 5,000. Turn to page 7 to find out how you can enter by collecting six tokens from 15 March to 19 April. The prize will include resources for the book corner, baby room, sand and water corner, and role play corner from Galt Educational, a bumper pack of Lego, plus a new carpet from Abingdon, and a fresh coat of paint for your walls.

Private providers fear sidelining

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Private providers remain apprehensive about their future role in Government initiatives despite ministerial reassurances that they will have a part to play. Speaking at a conference last week about the future of the private sector, minister for children Margaret Hodge spelled out the opportunities that children's centres and extended schools could offer private providers. But delegates, particularly those involved in the Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative, expressed fears that they will be sidelined or ignored.

Sleep tight

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  • Wednesday, March 1, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Children will only have a successful day at nursery if they have a proper sleep at night. Rosalyn Spencer explains how Every day in our nurseries and schools we have to cope with children who are sleepy, cannot concentrate, have problems relating to others, or are disobedient, hyperactive or aggressive. Sleep deprivation is thought to be one of the main reasons.

Let the babies be

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  • Wednesday, March 1, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I agree with Peter Dixon (In My View, 12 January) - what madness to have a curriculum for babies. Is this just a ploy to keep those who dream up these absurdities in employment? Will this lead to my 16-month-old being tested at age two? Maybe I'll have to get her a tutor or she won't pass the entry exam at the school nursery when she is three and a half. There seems to be a compulsion to fit everything into a box with planning.

Wraparound care 'will cost'

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Childcare and educational establishments have welcomed the Government's commitment to the extended schools initiative, while warning that 'it can't be done on the cheap'. Speaking at 'Every Childhood Matters', a 4Children conference held in London last week, education secretary Charles Clarke outlined plans for all schools to offer wraparound childcare from 8am to 6pm for 48 weeks of the year.

A sound start

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Never mind music's effect on the brain - its value to young children is in providing a shared experience and developing personal skills, as Susan Young explains Recent years have seen a lot of interest in how music might contribute to children's overall development, such as the supposed influence on the brain from listening to Mozart.

Cap on fees could hit training

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  • Wednesday, February 22, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A 175-a-week cap on the amount nurseries can charge for a full daycare place if they want to access financial support for recruitment and training through the Transformation Fund has raised fears that many settings in the south-east and London could lose out. Following the launch of the Children's Workforce Strategy last week, the DfES confirmed that only nurseries charging 175 or less would be eligible for the 3,000 incentive to recruit graduates and the quality premium of up to 5,000 to improve the qualifications of non-graduates. A DfES spokesman said the cap on fees, which applies nationally, aimed to prevent any impact on affordability.

1: Eye to Eye

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  • Wednesday, January 17, 2001
    • | Nursery World
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