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The deadline for entries for this year's Children's Stars awards

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  • Wednesday, April 18, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The deadline for entries for this year's Children's Stars awards, organised by4Children, has been extended to 30 April. Winners will be honoured at a ceremony in London on 28 June. Application forms can be downloaded at www.4children.org.uk.

Protest over governance experiment

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  • Wednesday, April 18, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Early years experts have expressed 'grave concern' after a Lancashire local authority was granted an extension of an alternative governance model for nursery schools, which they claim jeopardises the quality of nursery education. The DfEShas granted Blackburn with Darwen Council a two-year extension of arrangements for seven of its nine maintained nursery schools as part of its children's centre programme. Since the council introduced the new governance system in 2004, all seven nursery schools have lost their headteachers and most have been absorbed into children's centres.

EYFS staff error is put right

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  • Wednesday, April 18, 2007
    • | Nursery World
DfES officials have moved to correct a mistake in the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework after it was brought to their attention by an EYFS improvement manager in Leeds. Teresa Todd noticed the misprint in appendix 2 of the document, which gives details of the ratios and qualifications required for nursery classes in maintained schools. She explained, 'Bullet point 3 in this section currently reads that the other adult must have a relevant level 2 qualification - not level 3, as had been stated in the draft and consultation documents.

Staff nursery under threat after 30 years

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  • Wednesday, April 18, 2007
    • | Nursery World
More than 1,000 people have signed a petition to save a hospital workplace nursery in Manchester threatened with closure. Bunnyhops, the staff nursery at Prestwich Hospital, has been going for more than 30 years, but Bolton, Salford and Trafford Mental Health Trust is discussing plans to close it at the end of August to cut rising costs.

On a plate

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  • Wednesday, April 18, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Use fish to whet children's appetite for healthy eating, writes Karen Lenoir, manager of a Busy Bees nursery Ashton House Nursery in Preston was one of many around the country which helped to launch the NDNA 'Healthy Body, Happy Me' project last month. A fabulous fish cooking session led by nutritionist Ady Delaney really delivered the wow factor and we are now building on this with related activities.

Speech, language & communication

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  • Wednesday, April 18, 2007
    • | Nursery World
A guide to the early stages of communication by I CAN speech therapist and consultant Kate Freeman Babies are hardwired to communicate right from birth, but all children need help to learn to talk. Communication doesn't just develop on its own, although it can sometimes seem that way. Part one of this series describes what we mean by communication - how children move from being able to copy tongue movements at birth to talking about the birthday party they went to yesterday.

Decision time

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Childcare workers will know exactly what they're letting themselves in for on a new course. Karen Faux reports What is expected of childcare workers and what are the underpinning values and principles of working with children? What skills and qualities are required?

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.

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