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Ruby Wax

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  • Wednesday, November 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Popular comedienne Ruby Wax entertained management and training consultant Sue Overton and educational co-ordinator Sue Hodgson along with more than 400 employees of Child Base last month at the nursery chain's sixth annual conference. Its theme was 'Building a confident future', and Ruby amused delegates with stories of her childhood and her experiences of motherhood. Photo by Tony Hardacre

People and places: A monthly round-up

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  • Wednesday, September 12, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Staff and friends of Caego Day Nursery in Wrexham have raised 1,100 to buy a special bike for a three-year-old girl with cerebral palsy and epilepsy. The bike should help Elizabeth Kilshaw get around as well as have some fun. The nurery held a raffle, a 'pamper party' and a sponsored parachute jump to raise the money.

Brothers Nnadozie and Abaobi Ezenekwe

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  • Wednesday, November 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Brothers Nnadozie and Abaobi Ezenekwe enjoyed playing African drums at the CarAf Centre in the London borough of Camden, which celebrated Black History Month by holding International Black Day. The special day at the centre brought together adults and children from Barbados, Nigeria, Jamaica, Ghana, Grenada, Zambia, Trinidad and Somalia to celebrate diversity and enjoy special cultural performances, traditional foods, dance, music and literature. Photo Michael Melia

Speaking out

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  • Wednesday, October 22, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Nanny registration was the issue everyone kept returning to at the Professional Nanny conference on 4 October, though many topics were on the agenda. More than 100 nannies made their way to the Business Design Centre in London for the conference, which was opened with a letter of support sent by the Duchess of York - a.k.a. Fergie - saying 'As a full-time working mother and employer of nannies myself, I know all about their hard work, professionalism and dedication to their work.' Then it was the turn of the Sure Start minister, Baroness Catherine Ashton, who also said she was speaking 'as a mum who's employed nannies and childminders and used nursery provision'. But she disappointed many of those present when she said that the Government was 'nowhere near to thinking about' a nanny register. Nannies fired a barrage of challenges at the minister. There's already a system in place for registering childminders, so why not for nannies? Why talk about quality with childminders but not nannies? Why should a nanny have to lose children to a childminder or nursery where the parents can claim tax credits? Does the Government have any plans for recognising the training nannies have done? They felt Baroness Ashton left their questions unsatisfactorily answered, but she promised to listen, and she said, 'We don't want to lose you' - implying that the Government would prefer nannies to use their childcaring skills elsewhere.

Lego children's centre

    News
  • Tuesday, November 30, 2010
    • | Nursery World
A children's centre made from more than a million Lego bricks is the largest inhabited Lego structure in the world.

Close relations

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  • Wednesday, November 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Nursery chains with an eye on development might be wise to link up with schools, says Simon Vevers The plan to concentrate a wide range of services, including childcare, in clusters of extended schools lies at the heart of the recent Government Green Paper, Every Child Matters, and has the potential to redraw the childcare map in England.

Step forward

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  • Wednesday, November 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A new initiative is training early years practitioners to recognise and advise parents on their learning needs, says the Basic Skills Agency The key role that can be played by early years professionals as intermediaries and mentors for parents and carers has been recognised by Step in to Learning, a national training and development programme.

Families urged to claim Disability Learning Allowance for theirdisabled children

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  • Tuesday, September 25, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Families with disabled children are being urged by charity Contact a Family to claim Disability Learning Allowance (DLA). Only 42 per cent of families with disabled children are claiming DLA, and the charity reckons that a potential 323,400 families could be receiving up to another 109.50 per week. Jill Harrison, Contact a Family's director of external affairs, said, 'It costs up to three times as much to raise a disabled child, so every penny counts.' For its new information booklet or free advice, phone 0808 808 3555.

Building Quality Childcare programme

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  • Wednesday, October 22, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Nine innovative childcare projects in Northern Ireland were last week awarded grants of more than 400,000 by the New Opportunities Fund under its Building Quality Childcare programme. The projects include a new family centre in Ballycastle, which will be enabled to incorporate an existing Irish language pre-school childcare and toddler facility in a new building and provide after-school childcare. In Newtownabbey, near Belfast, the charity SENSE - the National Deafblind and Rubella Association - has been awarded 70,975 to extend its special needs care and expand its premises.

Staff strike closes schools

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  • Wednesday, October 22, 2003
    • | Nursery World
More than 160 schools across London closed for the day last Thursday as school support staff, including nursery nurses and classroom assistants, joined thousands of local government workers in a 24-hour strike. The action on 16 October by 58,000 members of the public services union Unison, as well as thousands of GMB and TGWU members who work in education, social services and environmental services, was in pursuit of a flat-rate 4,000 London weighting claim. It followed the withdrawal by the Greater London Provincial Council (GLPC) of a weighting offer of 201 for workers earning less than 14,800 a year.

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