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Fun and games

    News
  • Wednesday, September 12, 2001
    • | Nursery World
After a hard day's work on the national curriculum, games and puzzles are an ideal way to wind down Board games

Tax credits: Little credit

    News
  • Sunday, March 16, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Is the Government's latest change to the tax credit system going to make much difference to childcarers or parents? Mary Evans reports

Asylum education plans under attack

    News
  • Wednesday, April 24, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Children of asylum seekers will be denied the right to mainstream education by the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill, charities working with refugees have claimed. Under the Bill introduced earlier this month, children housed in the proposed new accommodation centres for asylum seekers will be unable to attend a school or receive a pre-school education unless they have special needs. Instead they will receive education on site, along with their healthcare.

Waste management

    News
  • Wednesday, September 12, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Whatever type of nappy you choose you have to deal with the waste and/or laundering. As more and more councils impose heavy fees for disposing of nappies and waste, you may find a nappy macerator a viable alternative. The Incomatic macerator from Dolphin (left) is capable of disposing of four nappies in around two minutes by macerating (shredding) them and then flushing them down the drain. The machine is operated by placing wipes, pads and nappies into the chamber, closing the lid, and pressing the start button. The machine cannot start unless the lid is fully closed, and it is fully soundproofed. A mild disinfectant is automatically injected during the maceration process to eliminate odours, and blades can be renewed very easily to ensure efficient operation. The Incomatic is priced around 3,000 but many nurseries take out a monthly lease-purchase scheme - paying 95 per month over five years to include purchase and all servicing requirements throughout the period. Telephone 01202 667399.

A bilingual compact disc

    News
  • Wednesday, April 24, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A bilingual compact disc has been produced by the Welsh Dyslexia Project to give parents a multi-sensory way of understanding their child's difficulties and what they can do to help. The English-Welsh CD has been designed to complement a bilingual booklet, Guide for Parents, which was produced in collaboration with Wales Digital College. Jane Davidson, minister for education and lifelong learning, praised the work of the Project, which has also received funding from the Welsh Assembly to produce a dyslexic diagnostic test for Welsh-speaking children with special educational needs. She said, 'The commitment, research and hard work of organisations such as the Welsh Dyslexia Project are extremely valuable. The CD reflects moves to include and support parents of children with special educational needs.' For more information, contact the Project on 01239 682849.

Radio appeals to children's senses

    News
  • Wednesday, April 24, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Anew radio project wants to encourage young children to 'see' with their ears. The 'Let's Make Radio' project promotes radio as an essential tool in the development of listening and speaking skills in early years children. The scheme, developed in partnership with Abracadabra!, the children's radio service, encourages childcarers and teachers to embrace the opportunities radio can bring.

Ask the expert

    News
  • Wednesday, April 24, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Child psychologist Jennie Lindon answers your letters about child behaviour. Q. We have two children (both four-year-olds) currently in our nursery who each have an imaginary friend. One child just uses her friend in her pretend play: chatting and involving the friend in domestic role play in the home corner. We realise that many young children have an imaginary friend, so we do not see this automatically as a problem. However, the second child really seems to need his 'friend' to speak up for him. His father is getting worried that his son can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality.

Look out for the ratio of fees to wages

    News
  • Wednesday, April 24, 2002
    • | Nursery World
In the 28 March edition of Nursery World, there were two items that particularly interested me - the news story 'Nursery profits "are hyped to investors"' concerning the Children's Nurseries - UK Market Sector Report by Laing and Buisson, and the letter 'Between a rock and a hard place' by Kirsty Lester, who owns a day nursery. If, as according to the Laing and Buisson report, the average fee for a full-time nursery place is 120 a week and the average hourly rate of nursery nurses is 5.45, then day nurseries like ourselves which charge just 80 per week (because that is all the local economy can stand) should be paying staff an average of Pounds 3.63 per hour on a pro-rata basis. National Minimum Wage requirements, however, are considerably higher, and the lowest wage paid in this nursery is Pounds 4.40 per hour.

In brief...The Manchester Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership

    News
  • Wednesday, September 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Manchester Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership will explore the theme 'working together' at its annual conference on Wednesday 19 September. Speakers at the event, to be held at Manchester City Football Ground, will include Naomi Eisenstadt, head of the Sure Start unit, and Laurence Blackhall, from the Department for Education and Skills, who will be talking to delegates about the Neighbourhood Nursery programme in Manchester. For more information contact Laura Koonjean or Stephanie Hailwood on 0161 273 3646.

Make ICT work

    News
  • Wednesday, November 7, 2001
    • | Nursery World
With careful planning, ICT can be productive and fun, as a school in Manchester discovered, says Jenny Benjamin It often seems that ICT provision in schools and nurseries is all about buying hardware. Make enough money on your fete or save enough cereal packets and your nursery's computer needs will be met.

Who cares?

    News
  • Wednesday, November 7, 2001
    • | Nursery World
On the eve of Government moves to increase the number of children who find permanent adoptive families, psychologist Hessel Willemsen describes the trauma facing those forced to live in temporary care settings There has been concern for some time about the plight of children in local authority care. Separated from their families because of neglect or emotional, physical or sexual abuse, only a tiny few have been lucky enough to find the security of an adopted family. The rest - and there are nearly 60,000 children in the care of local authorities at any one time in England, with more than 10,000 under four years old - are placed in temporary foster homes or residential homes and schools.

A healthy choice

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  • Wednesday, November 7, 2001
    • | Nursery World
After watching two videos on vaccination, one for and one against, at college, my whole opinion on vaccination changed. I would not have had my four children vaccinated at all. A natural decline was already occurring in these illnesses before the vaccination programme. It is important for a child to build up its own natural immunity, but I also believe now that vaccination does more harm than good to a baby's immune system (not to mention the addition of mercury and formaldehyde to these vaccinations).

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