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Software review: Fetch the Vet

    News
  • Wednesday, December 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The 'Fetch the Vet' CD-Rom complements the ITV children's series. Set in Tom Fetch's surgery, it incorporates favourite video clips and uses seven interactive activities for three-to six-year-olds. However, the CD-Rom requires over 50MB of hard disc space and an up-to-date machine (Pentium II or equivalent) that can cope with the video clips incorporated into the games. Installing the software is not straightforward, since additional video drivers need to be loaded.

More protest groups set up to fight NEG code

    News
  • Tuesday, May 15, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The campaign group started by nursery providers in Kent is growing, with branches of the PVI Providers Association now in a number of other areas. The Kent group has received e-mails and calls from nurseries throughout the country keen to join the movement against the Government's rules for nursery education funding for three-and-four-year-olds.

Don't overlook us

    News
  • Wednesday, December 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I have worked as an NNEB in a special school for more than 20 years. Again and again our training is not recognised. The excerpt from the speech by Charles Clarke, the new education and skills secretary mentions every member of staff apart from - yes, you've guessed it, the seemingly invisible nursery nurse. Even my own headteacher will speak about his school staff as teachers and classroom assistants.

Safe conduct

    News
  • Wednesday, February 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The death of a baby after an allergic reaction has set alarm bells ringing in nurseries about how they care for children with allergies, or even accept them. Ruth Thomson reports On 11 April last year radiographer Wendy Egan dropped off her five-month-old son Thomas at his nursery. Two hours later he was dead, his death caused in part by an acute allergic reaction. Now childcarers around the country are seeking to learn from the case and take steps to ensure that such a tragedy can never be repeated.

Centre stage

    News
  • Wednesday, April 4, 2007
    • | Nursery World
A state-of-the-art centre in a severely deprived area needs no arguments to justify its presence at the heart of the community. Simon Vevers found out why Since it opened two years ago, the Integrated Children's Centre (ICC) in Merthyr Tydfil has become not just a hub for the local community, but also the main element in the Welsh council's drive to combat social exclusion.

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, February 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
'I feel sorry for Michael Jackson's kids in some respects, but considerably less sorry than I felt for the toddler I recently saw being thumped by his mother for the crime of wanting some of her crisps' TV reviewer Kathryn Flett, The Observer

EYPS Support: Children's language and communication

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 10, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Delyth Mathieson, early years project manager at Edge Hill University, Lancashire, explains how one EYPS short pathway student worked towards evidencing Standard 15: Support the development of children's language and communication skills.

Security slip on vouchers

    News
  • Tuesday, February 17, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Busy Bees' childcare voucher website was taken down last week after a parent exposed a glitch in the system which could reveal customers' bank details.

Top marks for Hawk Training

    News
  • Friday, November 15, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Apprenticeship provider Hawk Training has been graded outstanding by Ofsted, following a period of sustained investment in its staff and resources.

Noticeboard: Road safety week

    Other
  • Monday, December 16, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Tootsies Private Day Nursery in Farnham celebrated Road Safety Week by dressing up in high-visibility jackets and cycle helmets.

Keep up NNI funding, say researchers

    News
  • Tuesday, April 3, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Neighbourhood Nurseries supporting families in the most disadvantaged areas should have their funding extended to ensure their sustainability, a new report recommends.

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, March 28, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Any study that finds negative effects for children in daycare is going to be greeted by hysteria on several fronts. The results will be brandished by organisations and individuals, mostly on the political right, seeking ammunition for keeping mothers in the home. Those involved in early years and childcare will, on the whole, be equally vehement about the worth of good- quality childcare. So the latest findings from the American Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (see News, page 4) will cause controversy, especially as the research team includes Professor Jay Belsky of Birkbeck University, whose outspokenness on this issue has raised many hackles in recent years, even among his own colleagues. As Professor Belsky is keen to point out, however, he is only reporting the results. In this case, he is 'truly sorry to say' that the more time children spent in daycare, the more aggressive and disobedient they were rated by teachers - and the quality of care had no mitigating effect.

Wales targets child poverty

    News
  • Wednesday, February 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Five leading children's charities are urging candidates in the Welsh Assembly elections in May to back a 20-point children's manifesto that has fighting child poverty as its top priority. With the backing of the umbrella organisation Children in Wales, the charities Save the Children, NSPCC, Barnardo's Cymru and NCH have launched a 'coalition of concern' with the help of health minister Jane Hutt.

Izzy's Island

    News
  • Wednesday, February 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Have you got Tizzy's Toybox in your nursery? If you have, then you may be pleased to know that there is now a follow-up from Sherston Software - Izzy's Island (01666 843200, single user 45, multi-user licences available). Sail away with Izzy and friends to the island where anything can happen.

Childminders vote for more babies

    News
  • Wednesday, November 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Childminders have voted to be allowed to care for more than one baby at a time. Delegates at the National Childminding Association's annual general meeting in Eastbourne last weekend voted overwhelmingly in support of a proposal that the national standards should be amended to allow childminders to care for more than one child under the age of one.

A big issue

    News
  • Wednesday, February 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Weight problems in young children are on the rise, but you can avoid them with our latest A-Z health guide by doctors at the Great Ormond Street Hospital health guide What is childhood obesity?

Back to basics

    News
  • Wednesday, March 28, 2007
    • | Nursery World
An investigation into work-based learning has uncovered a lack of key skills or study among nursery staff considered qualified at certain NVQ levels. Mary Evans reports The scale of the challenge to transform childcare into a graduate-led profession is underlined by a survey showing that early years advanced apprentices are scoring the worst success rates across the entire work-based learning sector.

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