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Tilly Lockey shows off new hands

    News
  • Wednesday, January 28, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Three-year-old Tilly Lockey from Beechdale Nursery in Consett, County Durham, shows off her new hands. Tilly contracted meningitis as a baby and had both hands and her toes amputated. Her family raised 100,000 to get her the battery-powered prosthetic hands, which allow Tilly to carry out any activity a three-year-old with real hands would do.

Council blamed in row on grants

    News
  • Wednesday, June 2, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A local authority that refused to let a private daycare provider administer the nursery education grant on the grounds that it wanted three- and four-year-olds to take up surplus places in the maintained sector has been condemned by the Government. Knowsley Council on Merseyside told Lorraine Moorcroft that the Hunts Cross facility she opened in Halewood last year would not qualify for the nursery education grant. She already operates the grant at another nursery in Knowsley and one at Huyton in Liverpool.

Child psychologist Jennie Lindon

    News
  • Wednesday, June 2, 2004
    • | Nursery World
New free leaflets from Early Education will help carers of under-fives understand child development and play an active part in children's learning. Written by child psychologist Jennie Lindon, the leaflets - Babies: Learning starts from the first day, Toddlers and very early learning, Helping children with their behaviour, and Questions and answers - are ideal to share at nurseries, playgroups and other settings. For copies send an SAE to Early Education, 136 Cavell Street, London E1 2JA (tel: 020 7539 5400). The leaflets are also available on the website www.early-education.org.uk.

One-off tax-free sum from HMRC can now be claimed by pregnant women

    News
  • Tuesday, April 7, 2009
    • | Nursery World
A one-off tax-free sum of 190 from the HMRC can now be claimed by all women who are at least 25 weeks pregnant. The Health in Pregnancy Grant, launched on Monday, is available for expectant mothers to spend as they choose when they fill out a form available from their midwife or doctor. The funding is intended to raise infant birthweights in deprived areas and help prevent diseases developing in later life (News, 13 September 2007).

Portable building inspired by Reggio

    News
  • Wednesday, June 2, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The community ethos of Reggio Emilia has inspired a new children's centre building. Portakabin, manufacturer of relocatable and modular buildings, has designed its Lilliput children's centre to take less than half the time of a traditional building to construct and to adapt to the needs of individual children's centres.

Local government workers pay claim

    News
  • Wednesday, July 31, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The three unions representing local government workers -Unison, TGWU and GMB - said last week they were 'bitterly disappointed' at the failure of talks with local government employers under the auspices of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. In a joint statement the unions accused the employers of having 'behaved disgracefully' because reports that they would consider a minimum salary of 5 an hour for all staff 'proved to be spin not substance'. Unison is seeking a 1,750 or a 6 per cent pay rise for 1.3 million local government workers, including nursery nurses. But the employers made a final offer of 3 per cent, which was rejected by Unison.

NDNA wins two-year-old support contracts

    News
  • Friday, November 30, 2012
    • | Nursery World
The National Day Nurseries Association has won ten contracts to support 62 local authorities in England with the rollout of free early education places for disadvantaged two-year-olds

Glasgow children can enjoy free weekend cinema screenings at the Glasgow Film Theatre and the IMAX cinema

    News
  • Wednesday, June 2, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Glasgow children can enjoy free weekend cinema screenings at the Glasgow Film Theatre and the IMAX cinema at the Glasgow Science Centre from 5 June. The offer, part of a 25,000 initiative funded by Glasgow Council, is open to all Glasgow Kidz cardholders. An accompanying adult can also get in free. All children aged five to 11 who live or study in the city can apply for the card. For details see the website www.kidzcard.org.uk The competition in October invited Nux zx zx zx

Work Matters: Where do I go from here?

    Features
  • Tuesday, April 1, 2008
    • | Nursery World
A young nursery staffer who has made a commitment to working with children but feels uncertain about which path to pursue is offered some career options by Tina Jefferies.

School on trail of nature education

    News
  • Wednesday, June 2, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Afour-year project to restore a primary school's nature trail has resulted in an innovative environmental education pack used by other settings. The education pack, 'St Ronan's Primary School Nature Trail: Resources', designed to support the five-to-14 environmental studies curriculum, has five sections on plants, mini- beasts, materials, conservation, and people and places, with activities for the classroom and outdoors, as well as a CD-Rom.

Three-hundred Sheffield Kitemark balloons launched

    News
  • Wednesday, July 31, 2002
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Three-hundred Sheffield Kitemark balloons were launched from Cathedral Square in the city to mark the 300 early years settings and play providers who have signed up to the Sheffield Quality Kitemark. The Sheffield Kitemark has been taken up by 15 other EYDCPs throughout the UK.

PVI providers unite to protest at new rules

    News
  • Wednesday, April 9, 2008
    • | Nursery World
More than 100 nursery campaigners, including many children and parents, gathered outside Hampshire Council Chambers in Winchester last week to protest about Government rules for Nursery Education Grant funding.

Reserve Forces opens its doors to nurseries

    News
  • Friday, December 7, 2012
    • | Nursery World
With the UK's reserve forces set to double in size over the next six years, the Reserve Forces and Cadet Association is looking to boost its income by letting out space in its properties at competitive rates, targeting nurseries as potential occupants.

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