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PVI settings counting where grants go

    News
  • Tuesday, December 18, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Local authorities are deciding how to spend the capital grant allocations they have received to help private and voluntary sector nurseries adapt their buildings and outside space to extend the free early education offer and deliver flexible provision.

Noticeboard: Toddle waddle

    Other
  • Monday, December 2, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Pre-school and toddler children at Leeward Child Care in Jersey took part in a sponsored toddle waddle.

Council wins award for service

    News
  • Tuesday, March 29, 2011
    • | Nursery World
The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham has won an award from Local Government Chronicle magazine for the success of the council's initiatives targeted at children and young people.

VAT not overlooked

    News
  • Wednesday, October 26, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Lynne Tasker (letters, 13 October) is right to say that VAT and business rates are crucial issues for the private sector, but it is incorrect to say these issues have been overlooked by the NDNA. NDNA has been campaigning continuously for the Government to offer relief on business rates for day nurseries for more than six years. Our member nurseries have seen their business rates increase by an average of 67 per cent.

Noticeboard: Star photo

    Other
  • Monday, December 2, 2013
    • | Nursery World
The newest addition to Magical Tree Nursery in Burnley is Zippy the alien, who children designed and created as part of their outer space week.

Questions of trust

    News
  • Wednesday, October 26, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Nannies and childminders have been rated above nurseries as the highest-quality form of care for babies and toddlers, apart from their own mothers. Introducing the Families, Children and Childcare study to this month's National Childminding Conference, researcher and childcare expert Penelope Leach said, 'I believe nannies have a unique part to play in childcare for babies and toddlers.' She found that for working mothers choosing who to leave their baby with, the most important considerations were trust and 'good adult-to-adult communication'. After talking to mothers about their satisfaction with the childcare they were using, she said, 'The better the communication between a mother and childcarer, the more satisfied she was with her childcare. This finding probably goes some way to explaining why more of the mothers in the study were more satisfied with childminders or nannies than with nurseries.' See our feature about research on page 6.

'Passports' for childcare staff

    News
  • Wednesday, August 28, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The UK's largest teacher recruitment agency has called for the Government to introduce a central register of all childcare workers, where every individual who has been cleared to work with children would hold a 'passport', renewable on an annual basis. The up-to-date register would be on the internet. Ian Penman, chairman of TimePlan, wrote to home secretary David Blunkett last week to urge the introduction of a new registration system similar to that used in the US. TimePlan is the agency that allowed Canadian teacher Amy Gehring to continue working in schools after police warnings that she posed a risk to children.

'Disabled face poverty'

    News
  • Tuesday, April 5, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Government proposals to reduce the amount of disability premiums by more than 1,000 per year could push thousands of families into poverty, the Every Disabled Child Matters Campaign has warned.

New system to help social services

    News
  • Wednesday, August 28, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A system to help social services managers and practitioners improve the outcomes of their work with children and families has been developed by the Department of Health and the Welsh Assembly. The Integrated Children's System comprises a framework for assessment, planning, intervention and review. Information essential for multi-agency practice will be set out in core data requirements and the system will provide common terms for understanding and describing the developmental needs of children.

Without prejudice?

    News
  • Wednesday, October 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Educators are arguing over differing results in assessing black pupils at the Foundation Stage. Simon Vevers reports Details of the performance of minority ethnic pupils in the Foundation Stage Profile assessments were published by the DfES earlier this year without any great publicity. Perhaps there should have been publicity - or rather, an alarm sounded. For they showed that all minority ethnic pupil groups, and black African Caribbean children in particular, performed below average on all 13 scales of the assessments completed at the end of the reception year.

With feeling

    News
  • Wednesday, August 28, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Children find it easier to explore and express their feelings through role play with peers than by talking to adults, as Lena Engel explains Dressing up, fun at any age, has a special creative appeal for the very young. It allows children to enter a world with no barriers between the real and the imaginary. Role-play activities used effectively can help children review and discuss their feelings and can inspire them to consider the feelings of others.

Editor's view - Take five?

    Opinion
  • Monday, September 5, 2016
    • | Nursery World
In this issue of Nursery World, we report on the Government's review of health visiting practice, which many of our readers may be unaware is happening.

A month in the life of Harry Tobias

    News
  • Wednesday, October 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Harry's play currently involves a great interest in bags of any kind, filling them with treasures and carrying them on his arm. He has also developed a new game with his stacking beakers. He tries very hard to sit on them, turning round to see exactly where they are before lowering himself carefully on to them. He has a success rate of about 50 per cent, and is very pleased when he manages it. He spends longer positioning himself than he ever does staying there! Harry has been copying his older sister's actions, playing 'Row, row the boat' with a teddy. He dances with his arms out too, turning round and round, often asking for music to be played.

A better education

    News
  • Wednesday, October 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Great media prominence is being given to the Government's early childhood policy, with Penelope Leach's and Oxford University's recent research finding that, all other factors being equal, young children will develop most healthily when raised in a stable, unhurried way by their own parents in a loving family environment (News, 6 October). Critics of the fashionable policy of driving mothers back into the workforce at any cost have argued for years that there is a direct causal relationship between the Government's early education policies and the behavioural and social malaise that is rapidly becoming the norm in today's schooling system.

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