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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.

The great outdoors

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2007
    • | Nursery World
With warmer days ahead, children can spend even more time outdoors working on a large scale and exploring their creative ideas. The following suggestions focus on two-dimensional mark-making with paint. Abstract murals

Reader offer

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Suzy Lamplugh Trust sells its own simple-to-use Personal Shriek Alarm which gives off an ear-piercing, 138 decibel shriek. It comes complete with a Guide to Safer Living and costs 7.50 plus p&p. The Trust has kindly offered alarms at a special discount price of 6.50 plus 1.50 p&p to our readers. Ring the Suzy Lamplugh Trust on 020 8876 0305 and quote Professional Nanny (cheques should be made to SLT Training and Resources Ltd).

Expletives deleted

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The importance of overcoming negative role models with positive alternatives is explained by Jenny Mosley and Ross Grogan Q I am shocked by the foul language, including sexually explicit words, used by a three-year-old boy in my care when he is upset. How should I react to this?

On course

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2007
    • | Nursery World
10 May I CAN conference

wraparound care: Before and after

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  • Tuesday, April 3, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Ensuring quality of care for children who spend their day with more than one provider is a juggling act in itself. Anne Wiltsher reports on a pilot scheme

Media watch

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  • Wednesday, September 13, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver said he is 'bored with being polite' about parents who fill their children's lunchboxes with junk food. The Daily Mail quoted Jamie's scathing remarks made at the launch of his new TV programme 'Jamie's Return to School Dinners'. 'I have seen kids of the ages of four or five open their lunch box and inside is a cold, half-eaten McDonald's, multiple packets of crisps and a can of Red Bull,' he said. 'You laugh and then you want to cry.' The Daily Mail also reported on a leaked Downing Street memo about the possibility of Prime Minister Tony Blair appearing on 'Blue Peter' once he leaves office. The paper said that the memo from one of Mr Blair's loyal staff suggested that a spot on the children's show might improve his public image.

Plans for eliminating discrimination, fostering good race relations and promoting equality of opportunity

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  • Wednesday, September 13, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Plans for eliminating discrimination, fostering good race relations and promoting equality of opportunity in the schools, nurseries and other institutions that Ofsted inspects or regulates have been published by Ofsted in a revised 'Raceequality scheme'. Jean Humphrys, Ofsted's Dignity at Work Champion, said, 'Ofsted is keen to develop and maintain good race relations, as an employer and also as regulator and an inspectorate of education and care providers.' Overall, 9 per cent of staff at Ofsted come from minority ethnic groups and the inspectorate is developing an action plan to increase the number of black and minority ethnic staff in senior roles. For information visit www.ofsted.gov.uk.

University-accredited Montessori course

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The first university-accredited Montessori course in the UK is the Kent and Sussex Montessori Centre's Early Childhood Teaching Diploma, recognised at NVQ level 4 by the Open University as the equivalent to one-third of a degree. Information is available at www.montessoricentre.com.

Four-year-old Lori-Ann Moran

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Four-year-old Lori-Ann Moran keeps a look-out for lawbreakers at Birch Services police post off the M62 near Manchester. PC Mike Monks treated Lori-Ann, who wants to be a policewoman when she grows up, to a spin in a high-powered car and a day in the life of a traffic officer as part of an event promoting police work as a career for women. Photo Guzelian

Cash incentive

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Scotland is introducing a single qualifications and careers framework for staff, but is it too much too soon? Simon Vevers investigates The Scottish Executive courted controversy a few months ago when it suggested that local authorities did not need to have teachers in all nursery classes. The EIS teachers' union warned that it could mean the quality of provision being 'diluted', with the creation of a postcode lottery in the educational provision available for nursery-age children.

On a roll

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Our new series looking at the work of local authorities in providing children's services around the country starts with a visit to Bradford, West Yorkshire by Simon Vevers The process of integrating children's services in Bradford is gathering pace, with the recent appointment of a children's services director and a rapid expansion of both the extended schools and children's centres programmes.

Vandalism in Leyland, Lancashire

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
An area plagued by vandalism in Leyland, Lancashire, is about to see the completion of a 640,000 family support centre. Services will include early education and childcare, child and family health support and links to Jobcentre Plus, childcare information services and local schools.

Seamless service

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A support scheme for young disabled children and their families has transformed their lives, says Sue Learner Twenty years ago, Helen Norris, now head of pre-school services for the London borough of Bromley, gave birth to a baby with Down's Syndrome.

Time to reform child benefit

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
By Kate Green, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) Sixty years ago, the first universal benefits for families with children were introduced. Paid in most cases directly to the mother, from 6 August 1946 family allowances formed a key plank of the post-war welfare state. The CPAG are pleased to be celebrating 60 years of support for children, but we believe the time is right to increase child benefit and pay it at the same rate for all children.

Degrees of success

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I have been reading the letters about the need for graduate managers in nurseries with interest. While I agree with the importance of experience and understand that in-depth study is not for everyone, I do object to the perception of a graduate manager being one who prioritises 'budgeting and number-crunching and is removed from the grassroots of why we provide childcare in the first place' (Letters, 24 August) I am a pre-school manager and have recently gained a BA (Hons). While managing financial resources was covered as part of my degree, this was a very small part of my qualification. I studied in great depth the foundation curriculum, managing people (very important when dealing with staff as well as children), child development, special educational needs, the importance of therapeutic play and also looking at stereotypical attitudes and assumptions. There may be some graduate managers who are as Nicola Dickinson describes, but there are also some like myself who have studied long and hard to achieve their degree and remain focused upon the children and families and use their qualification to support them as best they can.

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