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Public we win, Public you lose

    Opinion
  • Friday, March 7, 2014
    • | Nursery World
The Early Years Educator entry criteria are yet another example of a policy that has been rushed out without any attempt at joined up thinking, says Ross Midgley.

Lords debate speech therapy plans

    News
  • Wednesday, November 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The importance of having speech and language professionals working in children's centres was the focus of a debate in the House of Lords last week. The Liberal Democrats' Baroness Walmsley asked schools minister Lord Adonis how many speech and language professionals were in place in children's centres and how many have advanced plans to have them.

Ministerial moves

    News
  • Wednesday, October 17, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Parents may not have heard of the National Childcare Strategy, but their lives are being affected by it. Mary Evans examines how much progress has been made else is in store Further reforms and increased investment are needed if the National Childcare Strategy is to reach its aims of providing accessible, affordable, good-quality childcare to all parents who want it, according to early years organisations. Launched in May 1998 by the year-old Labour Government, the strategy - which covers England only, as powers regulating childcare have passed to the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland assemblies under devolution - has many of its targets fixed to deadlines in 2004. At the halfway mark in its first phase of implementation, the verdict from childcare campaigners is: so far so good, but more needs to be done.

Nursery death 'accidental'

    News
  • Wednesday, November 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The death of a ten-month-old girl who choked on a piece of apple at a nursery was judged accidental last week. Georgia Hollick died in hospital on 19 April of asphyxiation after choking on the apple at Just Learning Nursery in Cambourne, Cambridgeshire (News, 27 April). At an inquest into her daughter's death, Sharon Hollick said that she had expressed concern over the care Georgia was receiving to nursery manager Julie Haynes just days before the tragedy, claiming she had found Georgia sitting on the floor alone eating strawberries.

Three major religious festivals occur in December

    News
  • Wednesday, October 17, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Hanukkah * The Jewish festival of Hanukkah, this year on 10 December, celebrates the victory of the Jewish Maccabees over the Syrians and the reclamation of the Jerusalem temple. A rekindled lamp there holding only enough oil to burn for one day burned miraculously for eight days. The festival is celebrated by each night lighting a new candle in an eight-pointed Menorah, sending cards and feasting, including food fried in oil.

The great divide

    News
  • Wednesday, November 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Childcare services are out of reach for many families with disabled children, but change could be on the way, says Simon Vevers Despite rising numbers of children with disabilities and their needs becoming more complex, there is often a woeful shortage of childcare places for them and no specific help for their hard-pressed families through the tax credit system.

Complex culture

    News
  • Wednesday, November 24, 2004
    • | Nursery World
It was heartening to read the article by Peter Baldock about multiculturalism (Nursery World, 11 November) describing the work undertaken by the Cultural Mentoring Service in South Yorkshire (the DEC and Sheffield EYDCP) and particularly the modifications made as a result of the initial work. He states that the most important shift in focus, as a result of the initiatives, is that there is no future in settings doing things simplistically in order to avoid criticism. This seminal conclusion reinforces the need for all of us to acknowledge and understand how racial prejudice and discrimination impact on our work with children and their families, wherever we live.

Early years professional

    News
  • Wednesday, November 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Jane Haywood of the CWDC outlines how EYPs must recognise the vital role that families, parents and carers play in children's lives and how they can encourage partnership working to promote the best outcomes for children. Standard 31 'Work in partnership with families and parents/carers, at home and in the setting, to nurture children, help them develop and to improve outcomes for them'

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