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Fish oil 'better than drugs' for ADHD children

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  • Wednesday, June 28, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A daily supplement of omega-3 fish oil can reduce hyperactivity in children more effectively than commonly prescribed drugs, new research suggests. An Australian study measured the effects of eye q, a supplement of omega-3 fish oil and omega-6 evening primrose oil, on 132 children with ADHD. For 15 weeks the children were split, with one group taking eye q and another a placebo. Then, for a further 15 weeks, all took eye q.

Proposal to offload care is shelved

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  • Wednesday, January 31, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Plans to privatise council nurseries have been dropped by Newcastle City Council as it apologised to parents following a bureaucratic error. As Nursery World reported last week, the local authority had interpreted the Childcare Act as a duty to manage rather than to provide existing and planned childcare services.

Childcare places at risk as charity folds

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  • Wednesday, January 31, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Childcare staff and families marched through Glasgow city centre on Saturday calling for government intervention after the Scottish voluntary organisation One Plus went into liquidation last week, with more than 500 jobs at stake. The Scottish Executive has declined to pay out 2m to keep the charity afloat. Glasgow City Council, as One Plus's main childcare customer, has put up 700,000 to allow for a change-over of providers to take place.

Solutions sought as cost of childcare continues to rise

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  • Wednesday, January 31, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Childcare costs in England and Wales continue to rise above the rate of inflation, according to the Daycare Trust's annual survey of what parents are paying. The average cost for a 50-hour nursery place for a child under two is now 152 per week, at a time when average weekly earnings in England were placed at 447. The increase from 144 last year represents a three percentage point rise above the current rate of inflation.

Good buys!

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  • Wednesday, January 31, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Kit out your nursery with durable products for learning, playing or just resting, in our monthly round-up of new resources by Laura Marcus CREEPY CRAWLIES

Nannies for grannies

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  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Georgie Bateman, who runs the Night Nannies franchise in Hampshire and Wiltshire, is now launching an extra service called Nannies for Grannies. When grandchildren come to stay for a few days, a nanny can arrive at 9pm and deal with bathtime, bedtime and night-time requests. The idea came from Georgie's own mum, who sometimes cares for Georgie's girls Annabel and Louisa. 'Many grandparents want to give their children a weekend off, but are worried they won't know what to do,' says Georgie. 'And after spending the whole day entertaining a young child they feel exhausted.'

Footsteps

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  • Wednesday, June 21, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A parents' membership scheme called Footsteps has been launched by the Pre-school Learning Alliance, in partnership with Bounty, to coincide with Pre-school Playweek and highlight the importance of parental involvement. Other events of the week from 17-24 June, the pre-school part of National Sure Start Month, have included open days, sponsored toddles and teddy bears' picnics.

A parent's guide to gross and fine motor skills

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  • Wednesday, January 31, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Gross motor skills are used in activities such as running, playing ball and using a cricket bat, while fine motor skills are used to write, cut out a shape, tie up shoelaces and open jars. Mastery of both sets of skills is important for your child's development. Is one motor skill more important than the other?

Quote of the week

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  • Wednesday, November 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
'It is scandalous that the Government has ignored the view of virtually every child protection and health professional in the country. The Dickensian idea of reasonable chastisement has no place in a modern civilised society. Children should enjoy the same legal protection from being hit as adults. Anything less puts them at risk.' Mary Marsh, director of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

A Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, nursery manager has been voted Just Learning's 'Employee of the Year'

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  • Wednesday, January 31, 2007
    • | Nursery World
* A Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, nursery manager has been voted Just Learning' s 'Employee of the Year' out of more than 1,200 staff at the nursery chain. Chrissie Richardson, who has managed the Just Learning nursery in Huntingdon for the past five years, was awarded 250 and a certificate, plus 50 for her nursery staff room. She said, 'I was delighted to receive this accolade from colleagues. It is also a tribute to the fantastic team at the Huntingdon nursery.'

Hospital play specialists were lauded for their efforts in working with sick children

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  • Wednesday, January 31, 2007
    • | Nursery World
* Hospital play specialists were lauded for their efforts in working with sick children at an awards ceremony in December. The Ray of Sunshine children's charity and the National Association of Hospital Play Staff gave the awards to celebrate the work of play specialists in transforming children's experiences as patients in hospital. Keren Brooke from Ipswich was named overall Play Specialist of the Year, and Judy Walker from London was honoured as Distinguished Play Specialist of the Year. * A rooftop playground is to be added to an infant's school in Chadwell Heath, Essex, as part of its 1.7m transition into a children's centre. The school will also benefit from a new hall with four classrooms built on top. The playground area is to be fenced with wooden canes to be both safe and natural in appearance.

Yes, Minister

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  • Tuesday, January 30, 2007
    • | Nursery World

Scotlands education minister has endorsed moves to put play back into learning at school entry  but will schools and teachers be ready for it? Simon Vevers reports

New smacking rules omit nannies

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  • Tuesday, April 6, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Smacking is to be banned for all tutors and carers who work with children outside the family, including part-time educational settings, Sunday schools and madrassas, following a review.

Hit and miss

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  • Wednesday, May 24, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Will the structure of the Early Years Foundation Stage, asks Ruth Thomson, encourage the very practice that it is seeking to eliminate? If one message is made clear in the opening sections to the Government's proposals for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), then it is this: checklists of activities for babies and topic-driven provision for older children will have no place in the proposed framework. In their place must come responsive, flexible provision, built around the needs and interests of the individual child and delivered through a cycle of observation, assessment and planning.

'Help schools to combat bullying'

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  • Wednesday, November 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Bullying in schools could be curbed by Government measures, says ChildLine. The charity put forward recommendations for the Government to help prevent bullying in schools at its conference in London last week, chaired by Cherie Booth QC (pictured, right, with ChildLine chair Esther Rantzen OBE).

Hit and miss

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  • Wednesday, June 21, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Parents may resort to smacking as they negotiate the maze of teaching children how to behave. Jenny Mosley and Ross Grogan show how to suggest other routes Q The parents of one of my charges smack him when he is naughty. This is not in an abusive way but, as a childminder, I firmly believe there are better ways to discipline a child. I would like to discuss other techniques with them but am unsure what to suggest.

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  • Tuesday, April 6, 2010
    • | Nursery World
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Poverty body created

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  • Tuesday, April 12, 2011
    • | Nursery World
A new body has been created to monitor the Government's progress in tackling child poverty and inequality.

Ingrebourne Neighbourhood Nursery in Essex

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  • Wednesday, June 21, 2006
    • | Nursery World
* Ingrebourne Neighbourhood Nursery in Essex celebrated its second birthday with a party and a fundraising balloon race. The event was attended by the mayor and mayoress of Havering, and the Grand Balloon Race collected 500 for the nursery to spend on new toys.

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