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Caring is enough

    News
  • Wednesday, May 21, 2003
    • | Nursery World
In Mary Evans' report 'Put in the shade' (10 April), she asks, 'If we do not have teachers in the (Early Excellence) centres, how are they (presumably the children) going to relate to education?' She says that too much emphasis is placed on caring. What is wrong with caring for children? Don't we all need to feel valued and cared for? Why do pre-school children need to have an 'education'? My understanding of the Foundation Stage is that children are encouraged to play and will learn from their experiences.

Fighting chance

    News
  • Tuesday, October 21, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Disabled children are missing out on the early intervention and family support that would make a huge difference in their lives. Mary Evans finds out why

Keep talking

    News
  • Tuesday, October 21, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Adults use both instinctive and conscious techniques to help under-threes develop communication skills, says Penny Tassoni

New skills for nanny

    News
  • Tuesday, October 16, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Parents hunting for a good nanny should look for football skills and an ability to pilot an imaginary helicopter, according to the website thenannysharers.co.uk. In a poll it also found that 70 per cent of parents thought nannysharing was the best childcare option. Co-founder Theresa Byrne said, 'They believe it offers them quality and flexibility they wouldn't otherwise find.'

Ofsted wants to reveal complaints

    News
  • Wednesday, May 14, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Ofsted is looking for legal avenues that would let it tell parents the results of any investigations into complaints made by them against daycare providers without the provider's consent. At present parents are not told the result of any investigation carried out by Ofsted, unless the daycare provider investigated allows Ofsted to do so.

Teddies Bexleyheath celebrates 'outstanding' ofsted

    News
  • Tuesday, October 16, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Children, parents and staff at Teddies Nursery in Bexleyheath, London, celebrated being the first nursery in the Teddies chain to gain an 'outstanding' Ofsted report since BUPA took it over. Inspectors reported that the nursery staff were 'very imaginative' and showed 'dedication to each and every individual child'.

Research: Children reveal global worries

    News
  • Tuesday, October 16, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Today's young children are worried about climate change, global warming and terrorism as much as they are about a shortage of safe play areas, gangs and guns, according to the first report in a major independent review of primary school education.

Early years crucial to life chances strategy

    News
  • Thursday, May 19, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Plans set out in the Queen’s Speech to focus on improving life chances for disadvantaged families will not work unless the Government tackles child poverty, charities say.

Nursery market value soars

    News
  • Wednesday, May 14, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The UK day nursery market was worth an estimated Pounds 2.15 billion in 2002, more than five times its value at the start of the 1990s, according to a recent report published by the healthcare consultancy Laing & Buisson. Private sector providers generated 1.93 billion of the total, with the lion's share coming from sole traders or partnerships, which had a total income of 1.05 billion. Providers trading as companies earned 0.88 billion. The remainder of the total was generated by not-for-profit providers such as voluntary sector nurseries and local authorities. The market's total value grew by an estimated 16.5 per cent between 2001 and 2002.

Montessori seeks to resolve qualifications delay

    News
  • Tuesday, January 18, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Representatives from the Montessori and Steiner awarding bodies are meeting with officials from the Children's Workforce Development Council and the Department for Education in London in the next few weeks to discuss the future of Montessori and Steiner qualifications.

Training: Local networks to help EYPs go further

    News
  • Wednesday, October 24, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Practitioners who gain Early Years Professional Status are to be offered further development and training by local authorities, with funding provided by the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC), it was announced last week.

Pony visit

    Other
  • Monday, June 13, 2016
    • | Nursery World
The ‘Queen’ rode in on a pony to celebrate her birthday with children at Starcross Pre-school in Exeter.

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