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A childcare voucher scheme attracts record interest

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  • Wednesday, February 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A childcare voucher scheme by Busy Bees, the UK's third largest nursery chain, has attracted record interest from employers. In the past six months the Skipton Building Society, the supermarket chain Asda and the London borough of Newham have all introduced Busy Bees childcare vouchers for their staff, while the nursery group is also the largest supplier of childcare vouchers to NHS Trusts. John Woodward, managing director of Busy Bees, said, 'It appears that companies are now waking up to the potential that vouchers offer, both for employees to make their childcare more affordable and for employers to improve staff recruitment and retention.' He said he expected that the Government's changes to the Working Families Tax Credit in April would lead to more interest.

Further action may follow Jigsaw death

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  • Wednesday, February 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The inquest into the death of Thomas Egan, the five-month-old baby with a known cow's milk allergy who died at a Jigsaw nursery after being fed a cereal that contained milk protein, concluded last week with a verdict of accidental death contributed to by neglect. Following the verdict, the baby's father, Gordon Egan, said he and his wife Wendy would be pursuing further discussions with the Crown Prosecution Service regarding possible corporate manslaughter charges. He said that when Thomas started at the nursery at Browns Wood, Milton Keynes, they had given specific details of his allergy to cow's milk.

A paperless childcare voucher launched by the Grass Roots Group

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  • Wednesday, February 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A paperless childcare voucher scheme has been launched by the Grass Roots Group, a provider of business services. Under the 'care-4' system, once an employer has decided to join, participating employees simply advise the scheme's administrators of the amount that they wish to pay to their carers. Approved carers are registered with care-4 and receive their agreed payments directly in their bank accounts. Employees have a personal care-4 card and PIN to authorise the cash transfers, and can make authorisations via a 24-hour automated service or the website. The scheme brings a reduction in National Insurance contributions for employers, which can be passed on to the member of staff. For details contact Julie Barker on 01442 829 385, or see the websites www.care-4.co.uk or www.grg.com.

Britain stuck on gender barriers

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  • Wednesday, April 13, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Childcare is still a 'no-go' area for men because Britain is failing to open up non-traditional employment opportunities to boys leaving school and college, says a report by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC). Free to Choose: tackling gender barriers to better jobs, the EOC's final report into sex segregation, focuses on five highly segregated professions - construction, engineering, plumbing and information and communications technology (male-dominated) and childcare (female-dominated).

Understaffed

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  • Wednesday, February 13, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Why are childminders allowed sole charge of up to six children? A day nursery would have to provide two members of staff to care for one child, let alone six. Childminders should have to employ an assistant when caring for other people's children. This would provide a safety net for the children if the childminder should become ill or was in an unfit state to care for the children in her home.

Project to brush up dental health

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  • Wednesday, February 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A new scheme aims to tackle Scotland's appalling dental health statistics by setting up a toothbrushing project in every nursery. At present, by the age of five, 55 per cent of Scottish children have dental disease and over a quarter of a million teeth are extracted from Scottish children each year. The Scottish Executive's white paper, Towards a Healthier Scotland, published in 1999, set a target of 60 per cent of five-year-olds with no experience of dental disease by 2010.

Tower Hamlets Council

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  • Wednesday, November 22, 2006
    • | Nursery World
* Tower Hamlets Council in London has received top marks for children's services from both Ofsted and the Commission for Social Care Inspection. It was awarded four stars for children's education, four stars for children's social care and four stars for its capacity to get even better.

Audit Commission study

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  • Tuesday, November 4, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Children's trusts that were created by the Children Act in 2004 following the inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbie have made little difference to children's services, an Audit Commission study has found. Trusts often lack clear direction and have made slow progress, with 'little evidence of better outcomes for children and young people', the Commission said. It said the trusts were still 'bedding down', but called for children and young people to have more say in how services are designed.

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