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MPs push for speech help

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  • Tuesday, March 20, 2007
    • | Nursery World
A new all-party parliamentary group launched last week is aiming to raise awareness of the importance of early intervention in identifying young children with speech and language difficulties.

Durham teaching assistants vote to strike over pay

    News
  • Monday, October 31, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Nearly 1,000 teaching assistants in Durham have voted overwhelmingly to strike over plans by Durham County Council to cut their pay, which will see some lose nearly a quarter of their wages next April.

In character

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  • Monday, September 8, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Children across the UK are being invited to dress up as their favourite Roald Dahl characters as part of the Dahlicious Dress Up Day on 26 September in aid of Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity.

Scrap materials were recycled and transformed into bees, butterflies and similar puppets

    News
  • Wednesday, March 14, 2007
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Scrap materials were recycled and transformed into bees, butterflies and similar puppets by children including three-year-old Thomas Stell when they attended a storytelling session at Denby Dale library in south Yorkshire. The library joined in the BBC's BreathingSpaces campaign to urge communities to make a difference in environmentally-friendly ways.

Courses and conferences

    News
  • Wednesday, November 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
9 December. Meeting the needs of very young disabled children This conference by the National Children's Bureau will aim to build on the exciting possibilities of the new initiatives for special needs children in the early years, and try to allay any feelings of trepidation that change inevitably brings.

Vulnerable families value childcare

    News
  • Wednesday, January 15, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Families who are under stress and receiving support from social services find access to childcare particularly helpful, according to a study published by the Scottish Executive last week. Growing Support: A Review of Services for Vulnerable Families with Very Young Children is drawn from a survey of vulnerable families with children under three who had used social work services in different parts of Scotland. More than a third of the families had been the subject of child protection enquiries and more than a quarter had a history of domestic abuse. More than half the families were headed by a lone parent and almost one in five were affected by mental illness, usually that of a parent or partner, while a similar proportion had a history of drug dependency or alcohol abuse.

Children look up to the big boys

    News
  • Wednesday, January 15, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A nursery in Falkirk has come up with a novel project involving teenage boys from the secondary school next door. Sixth year students from Grangemouth High School are giving up free lessons to help with activities at neighbouring Inchyra nursery, which some of them used to attend. The 17- and 18-year-olds volunteer for a maximum of two school periods a week.

Rethink on grant

    News
  • Wednesday, March 14, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Early years and childcare organisations have broadly welcomed the Government's consultation on funding for early years education, which includes plans for more flexible funding of the free nursery education entitlement. These include options to bring funding systems for maintained and PVI settings more in line so local authorities can fit the market to parents'

Nominations are invited for the Heinemann and Nursery World Childcare Student of the Year Award 2007

    News
  • Wednesday, March 14, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Nominations are invited for the Heinemann and Nursery World Childcare Student of the Year Award 2007. Any tutors who have taught an exceptional student should complete the entry form that can be downloaded from www.nurseryworld.co.uk. The winning student will receive 300, a year's free subscription to Nursery World magazine and 300 in Heinemann vouchers for their college or university. The three runners-up will each win 100 and 75 Heinemann vouchers for their college.

LibDems pledge free childcare

    News
  • Tuesday, March 10, 2009
    • | Nursery World
The Liberal Democrats say they would give all families 20 hours of free, high-quality childcare and up to one year of paternity leave for fathers.

EYP Update launches online

    News
  • Tuesday, March 10, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Nursery World's regular section about Early Years Professional Status, sponsored by CWDC, is now online at www.nurseryworld.co.uk/eypupdate.

High and dry

    News
  • Wednesday, March 14, 2007
    • | Nursery World
This is the way we wash the clothes - and learn by experimenting, in part two of a project by Judith Stevens When children have regular opportunities to explore their ideas with interested, caring practitioners in a supportive atmosphere, they will begin to initiate their own investigations and develop problem-solving skills. The following ideas can support children's exploration and investigation of fabrics and the properties of materials. Many begin as adult-initiated activities which promote children's natural curiosity and support shared sustained thinking.

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