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Low take-up of home childcare

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  • Wednesday, April 9, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Only five childminders in England have so far expressed an interest in becoming a 'home childcarer', Ofsted said last week. The scheme, which is being rolled out across England, Scotland and Wales from this month, is aimed at parents looking for registered home-based care for their children who have special needs or those who work shifts.

Nurseries to take on disabled staff

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  • Wednesday, April 9, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Leapfrog Day Nurseries, the UK's second-largest nursery chain, has joined forces with Remploy, the leading employer of disabled people. Leapfrog will be taking part in three schemes - Workstep, Work Preparation and New Deal for Disabled People. Workstep is a programme run by the Employment Service and supported by Remploy, which encourages the creation of opportunities for disabled people to work in mainstream jobs alongside non-disabled people and to progress into open employment wherever possible.

Early years practitioners seeking advice

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  • Wednesday, April 9, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Early years practitioners seeking advice on how to respond to children's concerns about the war in Iraq can find some helpful articles by practitioners around the world on the internet. The website mail.ccie.com/catalog/ free_articles.php includes in its Exchange column the articles 'Children need attentive support during wartime', 'Making it better' and 'Guidelines for helping children during the war'. The Australian Early Childhood Association, at www.aeca.org.au/Effects%20of%20War.html, includes an article entitled 'War and children'. Other relevant articles are on the National Association for the Education of Young Children site at http://www.naeyc.org/resources/eyly/1998/22.htm, the Bright Horizons Family Solutions site at www. brighthorizons.com/talktochildren, Zero to Three at www.zerotothree.org and the New York University Child Study Centre at www.aboutourkids.org.

Many hands

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  • Tuesday, November 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The implications for teachers and support staff of the Government's reforms of the school workforce are analysed by Ruth Thomson

Little Acorns Nursery School

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  • Wednesday, April 9, 2003
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Little Acorns Nursery School in Leicester has been celebrating the double - it has become the first setting in the city to be awarded the National Day Nurseries Association's Quality Counts kitemark, which led to it also receiving Investors in People status. Nursery manager Nicky James said the NDNA accreditation was 'a huge achievement and a leap forward' for the nursery school in its support of quality childcare. Investors in People, she said, 'provides us with a framework that gives the nursery direction and shape. It enables our staff to be committed and feel valued by identifying individual training needs'.

Quote of the week

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  • Wednesday, October 30, 2002
    • | Nursery World
'We've had some prats and some monumental prats doing the job. I would personally prefer to have somebody who manifests some human feelings, makes the odd mistake. You could see she was very unhappy. She was moist-eyed at press conferences.' Professor Ted Wragg on Estelle Morris's resignation, the TES

Taking fish oils boosts behaviour

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  • Wednesday, July 20, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Pre-school children participating in a trial in which they take daily fish oil supplements have shown 'dramatic improvements' in their behaviour and concentration, according to researchers. The Durham Sure Start trial has announced preliminary findings from its study of the effects of omega-3 fatty acid supplements on 60 children aged between two months and three years, in a year-long trial that began last November.

School support plan welcomed

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  • Wednesday, October 30, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Plans for a pilot project in Wales giving schools latitude in the way they spend money on support staff to help relieve teachers of administrative burdens have been welcomed by a leading early years practitioner. Early Education representative Anne Roberts, a Swansea schools inspector and former headteacher, said the Welsh Assembly's proposal to give schools flexibility in deciding how additional support funds are spent was an important step forward in relieving teachers' workload.

Children as young as eight to be targeted by crime prevention panels

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  • Wednesday, October 30, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Children as young as eight are to be targeted by crime prevention panels set up by the Youth Justice Board. The board's chairman Lord Warner told a conference organised by the Association of Chief Police Officers last week that early intervention would reduce the likelihood of children offending in later life. Children will be referred to a panel of police officers, education experts and social workers who will give them and their families support and guidance, but attendance will be voluntary. The Youth Inclusion and Support Panels Scheme will be piloted over the next six months in the ten areas of England with the highest levels of street crime. (See Special Report, 24 October).

Lunchtime staff bring games back to the playground

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  • Wednesday, July 20, 2005
    • | Nursery World
An initiative to re-introduce children to traditional playground games is being rolled out to more than 250 primary schools across Lincolnshire. Research by the Lincolnshire-based charity Children's Links has found that many young children do not know how to play games like hopscotch, skipping, quoits and jacks.

The first national social services recruitment campaign by the Scottish Executive

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  • Wednesday, October 30, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The first national social services recruitment campaign by the Scottish Executive is aiming to address a shortage of staff, which is particularly acute in children's services. The four-week Care in Scotland TV and press campaign aims to raise the profile of social work and social care and tackle the problems of staff recruitment and retention. Launching the campaign at an Edinburgh centre for people with learning disabilities, minister for education and young people Cathy Jamieson said it was 'not a quick fix' but a platform to build on, with special emphasis on recruiting younger staff, and men as well as women.

Make an impression

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  • Wednesday, April 9, 2003
    • | Nursery World
What's the best paper to use for printing? How much paint do you use? How do you hold a small object? Hilary White shows you how not toput your foot in it. Printing is one of my all time favourite activities, especially where children are concerned. I will never forget one particular hand-printing session and a little girl who had virtually reached her shoulder with the paint brush before anyone noticed.

Swine flu jabs go on trial for 1,000 children

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  • Tuesday, October 6, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Around 1,000 children aged from six months to 12 years in Oxford, Bristol, Southampton, Exeter and London will be offered immunisation against swine flu this month in a clinical trial.

Replace the current system of funding for voluntary organisations

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  • Wednesday, April 2, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The Scottish Executive is inviting opinions on its proposal to replace the current system of funding for voluntary organisations offering services to children, young people and their families. The Executive proposes a single integrated funding stream to incorporate existing schemes, as part of a wider drive towards the reform of planning and delivery of children's services. The consultation document, Funding Services for Children & Young People - voluntary sector funding, is available to view on the website www.scotland.gov.uk. The closing date for voluntary organisations and other interested parties to register their comments is 20 June 2003.

A play specially created for children

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  • Wednesday, April 2, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A play specially created for children under three has been touring nurseries and playgroups in the west London borough of Hammersmith. 'Shhh!', performed by two actors with a puppet, tells the story of a baby who does not want to sleep. After he loses his blanket he climbs out of his cot and embarks on an adventurous journey to find it. The 25-minute play, devised by the Lyric Hammersmith, will be performed at the theatre on 18 and 19 April after its tour. For more information phone the Lyric ticket office on 08700 500 511.

'Parents cannot afford more'

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  • Wednesday, April 2, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Parents may have almost come to the limit of what they are prepared to pay for registered childcare, the director of the Daycare Trust told the Work and Pensions select committee in Westminster last week. The warning was given by Stephen Burke to the select committee as it looked at the issue of how suitable and affordable childcare can be provided for all parents who need it to enable them to work. During the 90-minute hearing he said that the typical cost of a day nursery place for a child under the age of two was now 128 a week. 'I think we've nearly reached the ceiling of what parents are prepared to pay for childcare,' he said.

Scottish strategy goals appraised

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  • Wednesday, May 8, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A good start has been made on the Scottish Childcare Strategy but there is still some way to go, says Children in Scotland as it marks the strategy's fourth anniversary this month. Children in Scotland chief executive Bronwen Cohen said, 'Most people agree that a good start has been made in implementing the strategy.

Adam's Hats, a charity set up in memory of Adam Hay

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  • Wednesday, October 23, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Adam's Hats, a charity set up in memory of Adam Hay, who died earlier this year aged 12 from cancer of the nervous system, has opened a memorial garden in his honour at the Nurseryworks Floral Place Nursery in Islington, north London, which he attended. Adam's mother, Susan, is a founder of Nurseryworks.The charity is based at 56 St Paul's Road, London N1 2QW (telephone 020 7226 6104).

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