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Hodge promises funding

    News
  • Wednesday, March 2, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Low-quality childcare provision 'will fall by the wayside' as the childcare sector expands, children's minister Margaret Hodge said at an exclusive round-table event organised by Nursery World last week. Mrs Hodge invited a cross-section of the childcare workforce to her office in Westminster to discuss issues surrounding sustainability, funding and the relationship between the private and public childcare sector.

Summer fun costs over 70 a week

    News
  • Wednesday, July 13, 2005
    • | Nursery World
in the UK are paying more than 70 a week for play schemes during the summer holidays, according to the annual holiday childcare costs survey published this week by the Daycare Trust. Figures are based on data provided by 204 Children's Information Services.

Happy Jays

    News
  • Wednesday, July 13, 2005
    • | Nursery World
York-based nursery group Happy Jays opened its third nursery in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, last month. The purpose-built nursery facility will provide more than 80 childcare places for children aged three months to five years.

To the point...

    News
  • Wednesday, July 13, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell is dismayed by children's legislation influenced by the wrong interests You always have to be alert with this Government, whenever it does something about children. The new Children and Adoption Act exemplifies its tendency to reel and rock under populist pressures.

Star rating scheme is shelved by DfES

    News
  • Wednesday, October 2, 2002
    • | Nursery World
P lans for a star-rating scheme for daycare providers, to start from next year in England, have been dropped by the Government. The Investors in Children (IiC) scheme will not now have a one-star to three-star rating for the quality of care provided, as envisaged last year by prime minister Tony Blair. Instead the scheme will monitor all of the early years sector's Quality Assurance schemes to ensure they meet minimum criteria and enforce high standards of provision.

Birth to Three Matters

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  • Wednesday, March 2, 2005
    • | Nursery World
* A new book on the birth to three framework was launched at a conference at Manchester Metropolitan University on 26 February. Birth to Three Matters: supporting the framework of effective practice, edited by Lesley Abbott and Ann Langston, is published by Open University Press, price 16.99 from bookshops or www.openup.co.uk.

Guide gives childminders advice on child abuse

    News
  • Wednesday, October 2, 2002
    • | Nursery World
How should a childminder respond if a child confides that he or she is being abused? A new guide published last week by the Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA) gives advice on this and a range of other child protection issues, explaining how the childminder can react responsibly without causing the child further anxiety or trauma. Safe & Secure - A Child Protection Good Practice Guide for Registered Childminders provides a list of tips for the childminder faced with a disclosure of abuse. These include listening carefully and patiently, without asking leading questions; reassuring the child that he or she is being believed and is not to blame for the abuse; and making an immediate timed, dated and signed record of the conversation, leaving any investigations to others who have specialist training.

Locomotion: They're off!

    News
  • Tuesday, March 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Understanding children's motor development will help you to support it without asking too much of them or inhibiting them, as Dr Richard Woolfson explains

Write on

    News
  • Wednesday, March 2, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The habit of taking useful notes is one that childcarers will practise again in the record-keeping they do on the job So how do you make notes in classes and lectures? Do you try to write down everything your tutor says,? Do you try to write neatly, and do you worry about the correct spellings?Do you have to ask the person next to you to find out what you've missed? If you've said yes to any of these, then you are not doing it properly.

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