Personal account Institutional account
| Register |

Search Results

Found 42,279 results for .

Sitters work round parents' needs

    News
  • Wednesday, March 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Plans are underway to launch a new sitter service in Angus to provide affordable, flexible home-based childcare. The development follows the success of the first sitter service set up six years ago by One Parent Families Scotland and follows other services established in Aberdeenshire earlier this month, and in North Lanarkshire three years ago.

All on board

    News
  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Partnership working across sectors in Worcestershire has required hard work but has been rewarding, says Alison Hitchins Partnership is now a common word for all those involved in the planning and delivery of services for children and families. From their inception in 1998, Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships were expected to build working relationships with those from the private, voluntary and independent sectors, and with maintained provision.

CfBT acquires Manor Tree to take Top 20 slot

    News
  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The Centre for British Teachers (CfBT), the not-for-profit education and training company, announced on Monday that it had acquired the Manor Tree group of nurseries, a chain with eight settings based in the south-east of England and London. The Manor Tree Group was previously the 17th largest nursery operator in the UK and Ireland, with 806 places (Nursery Chains, summer 2005). Its five standalone nurseries are in West Norwood in London, and Binfield, Iver and Slough in Berkshire. It also has three nursery units attached to independent schools in Berkshire and Surrey.

Autistic children to learn family communication

    News
  • Wednesday, March 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A new therapy is aiming to develop communication skills between pre-school autistic children and their parents. A four-year trial of Pre-School Autism Communication has received 1.3m of funding from the Medical Research Council and will be conducted at the University of Manchester. It will study the effectiveness of a treatment to improve parent/child communication and develop the social and language skills of autistic children aged between two and five before they start school.

Current filters

Filter by

© MA Education 2024. Published by MA Education Limited, St Jude's Church, Dulwich Road, Herne Hill, London SE24 0PB, a company registered in England and Wales no. 04002826. MA Education is part of the Mark Allen Group. – All Rights Reserved