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Informal care preferred by many parents

    News
  • Wednesday, January 5, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Policymakers are being urged to reconsider the current expansion of formal childcare provision and focus on the benefits of informal care provided by friends and family. The recommendation is made in a report funded by Sure Start Kilburn Priory in London. Valuing Informal Care: What Mothers of Young Children Want is based on interviews with 200 parents in the local area and published by the Hera Trust, an organisation that aims to advance education in social sciences and the role of women in society.

Spotlight on…Samantha Metson-Jeffrey

    News
  • Sunday, December 10, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Teaching assistant, Goudhurst Village Pre-School, Cranbrook. Samantha was named Early Years Care Apprentice of the Year at the Lifetime Learner Achievement Awards in November.

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, September 25, 2002
    • | Nursery World
'Neither! I prefer Mrs Bell and the children' David Bell, Ofsted chief inspector, on being asked if he would rather go on holiday with education secretary Estelle Morris or her predecessor David Blunkett, Guardian Online

Editor’s view - The policy gap

    Opinion
  • Monday, December 11, 2017
    • | Nursery World
In these weeks running up to Christmas, the problems of inequality, disadvantage and lack of social mobility in our country come into ever-sharper focus, as both our regular columnists highlight.

Opinion: In my view - Start with the buildings

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, January 30, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Everyone agrees that children deserve the best possible start in life, and that our nursery provision should reflect the critical importance of the early years in shaping young lives. Yet it's a sad fact that in today's Scotland, the quality of provision depends on where you live.

Educational attainment in Scotland

    News
  • Wednesday, September 25, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Having the worst diets and the highest youth suicide rates in the UK does not stop Scotland's children from having the best educational attainment, with 78.6 per cent involved in either full-time school or further education. The findings are in a new report, The Well-being of Children in the UK, on a study carried out for Save the Children by researchers from the University of York. It found that 96 per cent of children in Whitfield South, Dundee, are living in poverty - the highest rate in the UK - Jwhile Kilmardinny in east Dunbartonshire has the lowest rate of child poverty in Scotland, at just 0.7 per cent.

United we stand on child poverty

    News
  • Wednesday, January 5, 2005
    • | Nursery World
By Kate Green, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group It's not often that politicians from across the political divide agree, so at the Child Poverty Action Group we were delighted when a recent debate won cross-party consensus about the importance of tackling child poverty.

Doctors who make cash from childcare

    News
  • Wednesday, January 5, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Letter of the week wins 30 worth of children's books I thought Nursery World readers may be interested in the following letter that I sent to my GP with regard to the fee he charged for completing my husband's Ofsted health declaration form. The form was submitted in order to register him as a full-time childminder so that we could work together to provide high- quality, safe and secure childcare.

Nurseries to train grandparents for part-time jobs

    News
  • Wednesday, December 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Grandparents are being recruited by a nursery chain to beat staff shortages. Tops Day Nurseries, which operates nine nurseries across the south of England, hopes to find grandparents aged from 50 to 75 for part-time roles.

Mathematical development: Star qualities

    News
  • Tuesday, November 26, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Traditional Christmas images can help reinforce children's understanding of shape and pattern, as Lena Engel demonstrates with these seasonal activities

Spending on early years cut by £650m

    News
  • Monday, December 11, 2017
    • | Nursery World
New DfE figures show local authority spending on Sure Start and early years services has fallen by more than £650 million since 2010.

On close inspection

    News
  • Wednesday, August 15, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Providers across the early years sector should have in their postbag by now a set of the national care standards that relate to their type of provision, and the accompanying guidance.

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