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Voluntary sector progresses most

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The voluntary sector has improved more than any other type of provision, according to the first large-scale study of childcare across England since the Effective Provision of Pre-School Education (EPPE) in the late 1990s. The Quality of Childcare Settings in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), which compared EPPE data, found that while quality had gone up in all sectors, particularly with the 'learning aspects of provision', the voluntary sector made the largest gains.

The great outdoors

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2007
    • | Nursery World
With warmer days ahead, children can spend even more time outdoors working on a large scale and exploring their creative ideas. The following suggestions focus on two-dimensional mark-making with paint. Abstract murals

Reader offer

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Suzy Lamplugh Trust sells its own simple-to-use Personal Shriek Alarm which gives off an ear-piercing, 138 decibel shriek. It comes complete with a Guide to Safer Living and costs 7.50 plus p&p. The Trust has kindly offered alarms at a special discount price of 6.50 plus 1.50 p&p to our readers. Ring the Suzy Lamplugh Trust on 020 8876 0305 and quote Professional Nanny (cheques should be made to SLT Training and Resources Ltd).

Expletives deleted

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The importance of overcoming negative role models with positive alternatives is explained by Jenny Mosley and Ross Grogan Q I am shocked by the foul language, including sexually explicit words, used by a three-year-old boy in my care when he is upset. How should I react to this?

On course

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2007
    • | Nursery World
10 May I CAN conference

wraparound care: Before and after

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  • Tuesday, April 3, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Ensuring quality of care for children who spend their day with more than one provider is a juggling act in itself. Anne Wiltsher reports on a pilot scheme

Media watch

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  • Wednesday, September 13, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver said he is 'bored with being polite' about parents who fill their children's lunchboxes with junk food. The Daily Mail quoted Jamie's scathing remarks made at the launch of his new TV programme 'Jamie's Return to School Dinners'. 'I have seen kids of the ages of four or five open their lunch box and inside is a cold, half-eaten McDonald's, multiple packets of crisps and a can of Red Bull,' he said. 'You laugh and then you want to cry.' The Daily Mail also reported on a leaked Downing Street memo about the possibility of Prime Minister Tony Blair appearing on 'Blue Peter' once he leaves office. The paper said that the memo from one of Mr Blair's loyal staff suggested that a spot on the children's show might improve his public image.

Plans for eliminating discrimination, fostering good race relations and promoting equality of opportunity

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  • Wednesday, September 13, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Plans for eliminating discrimination, fostering good race relations and promoting equality of opportunity in the schools, nurseries and other institutions that Ofsted inspects or regulates have been published by Ofsted in a revised 'Raceequality scheme'. Jean Humphrys, Ofsted's Dignity at Work Champion, said, 'Ofsted is keen to develop and maintain good race relations, as an employer and also as regulator and an inspectorate of education and care providers.' Overall, 9 per cent of staff at Ofsted come from minority ethnic groups and the inspectorate is developing an action plan to increase the number of black and minority ethnic staff in senior roles. For information visit www.ofsted.gov.uk.

University-accredited Montessori course

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The first university-accredited Montessori course in the UK is the Kent and Sussex Montessori Centre's Early Childhood Teaching Diploma, recognised at NVQ level 4 by the Open University as the equivalent to one-third of a degree. Information is available at www.montessoricentre.com.

Four-year-old Lori-Ann Moran

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Four-year-old Lori-Ann Moran keeps a look-out for lawbreakers at Birch Services police post off the M62 near Manchester. PC Mike Monks treated Lori-Ann, who wants to be a policewoman when she grows up, to a spin in a high-powered car and a day in the life of a traffic officer as part of an event promoting police work as a career for women. Photo Guzelian

Cash incentive

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Scotland is introducing a single qualifications and careers framework for staff, but is it too much too soon? Simon Vevers investigates The Scottish Executive courted controversy a few months ago when it suggested that local authorities did not need to have teachers in all nursery classes. The EIS teachers' union warned that it could mean the quality of provision being 'diluted', with the creation of a postcode lottery in the educational provision available for nursery-age children.

On a roll

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Our new series looking at the work of local authorities in providing children's services around the country starts with a visit to Bradford, West Yorkshire by Simon Vevers The process of integrating children's services in Bradford is gathering pace, with the recent appointment of a children's services director and a rapid expansion of both the extended schools and children's centres programmes.

Vandalism in Leyland, Lancashire

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
An area plagued by vandalism in Leyland, Lancashire, is about to see the completion of a 640,000 family support centre. Services will include early education and childcare, child and family health support and links to Jobcentre Plus, childcare information services and local schools.

Seamless service

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A support scheme for young disabled children and their families has transformed their lives, says Sue Learner Twenty years ago, Helen Norris, now head of pre-school services for the London borough of Bromley, gave birth to a baby with Down's Syndrome.

Time to reform child benefit

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
By Kate Green, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) Sixty years ago, the first universal benefits for families with children were introduced. Paid in most cases directly to the mother, from 6 August 1946 family allowances formed a key plank of the post-war welfare state. The CPAG are pleased to be celebrating 60 years of support for children, but we believe the time is right to increase child benefit and pay it at the same rate for all children.

Degrees of success

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I have been reading the letters about the need for graduate managers in nurseries with interest. While I agree with the importance of experience and understand that in-depth study is not for everyone, I do object to the perception of a graduate manager being one who prioritises 'budgeting and number-crunching and is removed from the grassroots of why we provide childcare in the first place' (Letters, 24 August) I am a pre-school manager and have recently gained a BA (Hons). While managing financial resources was covered as part of my degree, this was a very small part of my qualification. I studied in great depth the foundation curriculum, managing people (very important when dealing with staff as well as children), child development, special educational needs, the importance of therapeutic play and also looking at stereotypical attitudes and assumptions. There may be some graduate managers who are as Nicola Dickinson describes, but there are also some like myself who have studied long and hard to achieve their degree and remain focused upon the children and families and use their qualification to support them as best they can.

DfES sticks to fund terms

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  • Wednesday, August 30, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The DfES has reiterated its determination to ban top-up fees and insisted that childcare providers offer 38 weeks of 'free' nursery education. A letter sent to local authority chief executives last week from DfES official Grahame Archer 'was only reinforcing what was said by Beverley Hughes a month or so ago', according to a DfES spokeswoman.

Nurseries dispute CWDC's staff age survey results

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  • Wednesday, August 30, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Nursery providers have expressed surprise at a claim by the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) that the average age of nursery staff is 32. The CWDC has stated that only 14 per cent of an estimated 100,000-strong nursery workforce are aged 29 and under - a finding that the director of one leading nursery chain described as 'bizarre'.

Parents polled on graduate EYPs

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  • Wednesday, August 30, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Parents want early years professionals to adhere to clear standards and possess knowledge, skills and relevant experience, but some parents believe that a degree may not be crucial, a report from the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) revealed last week. The CWDC asked 45 children and 29 parents and carers what they thought of the draft standards and what skills and behaviour they would expect from EYPs.

Little by little

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  • Wednesday, May 3, 2006
    • | Nursery World
When they enter nursery, children will probably already be familiar with small-world play, but it can be offered anew in all areas of your setting Most young children will have engaged with small-world play before they ever arrive in an educational setting. It is unlikely, however, that their families will ever have called it that! Playing with cars, trains, doll's houses, farm and zoo animals and a range of commercially produced toy people will simply have been an integral part of childhood.

At a loss

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  • Wednesday, January 11, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The departure of the first Foundation Stage director could hardly have come at a worse time, early years practitioners and leaders agree. Mary Evans sounds out their feelings The early years sector has reacted to the resignation of Lesley Staggs from her prestigious post as national director of the Foundation Stage with shock, sorrow and anxiety about the future.

A budding musician demonstrates his talents in the new outdoor play area at Hayle Children's Centre

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  • Wednesday, August 23, 2006
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - A budding musician demonstrates his talents in the new outdoor play area at Hayle Children's Centre, Cornwall. The instruments were provided by Perranuthnoe-based company Kif Guitars for the play area, which was officially opened on 13 August by Terry Lello, the county council's lead member for children, young people and families. Guests at the launch enjoyed live music and a barbeque. Photo Jim Wileman

Media watch

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  • Wednesday, August 23, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Newborn babies should be held naked next to their mother's skin for the first hour after birth so the two can bond, reported the Daily Mail. According to Dr Mary Price, a lecturer in midwifery at the University of Salford, this 'golden hour' helps calm the baby, build up resistance to infection and get breastfeeding off to a good start.

Sustainability of services is a key concern for out-of-school childcare providers

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  • Wednesday, November 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Sustainability of services is a key concern for out-of-school childcare providers, 4Children has found from its childcare helpline. Nine out of ten providers report sustainability and funding as their number one concern. A 4Children conference on funding and sustainability is will be held in London on 14 December. Visit www.4children. org.uk for details.

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