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Step forward

    News
  • Wednesday, November 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A new initiative is training early years practitioners to recognise and advise parents on their learning needs, says the Basic Skills Agency The key role that can be played by early years professionals as intermediaries and mentors for parents and carers has been recognised by Step in to Learning, a national training and development programme.

Families urged to claim Disability Learning Allowance for theirdisabled children

    News
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Families with disabled children are being urged by charity Contact a Family to claim Disability Learning Allowance (DLA). Only 42 per cent of families with disabled children are claiming DLA, and the charity reckons that a potential 323,400 families could be receiving up to another 109.50 per week. Jill Harrison, Contact a Family's director of external affairs, said, 'It costs up to three times as much to raise a disabled child, so every penny counts.' For its new information booklet or free advice, phone 0808 808 3555.

Building Quality Childcare programme

    News
  • Wednesday, October 22, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Nine innovative childcare projects in Northern Ireland were last week awarded grants of more than 400,000 by the New Opportunities Fund under its Building Quality Childcare programme. The projects include a new family centre in Ballycastle, which will be enabled to incorporate an existing Irish language pre-school childcare and toddler facility in a new building and provide after-school childcare. In Newtownabbey, near Belfast, the charity SENSE - the National Deafblind and Rubella Association - has been awarded 70,975 to extend its special needs care and expand its premises.

Staff strike closes schools

    News
  • Wednesday, October 22, 2003
    • | Nursery World
More than 160 schools across London closed for the day last Thursday as school support staff, including nursery nurses and classroom assistants, joined thousands of local government workers in a 24-hour strike. The action on 16 October by 58,000 members of the public services union Unison, as well as thousands of GMB and TGWU members who work in education, social services and environmental services, was in pursuit of a flat-rate 4,000 London weighting claim. It followed the withdrawal by the Greater London Provincial Council (GLPC) of a weighting offer of 201 for workers earning less than 14,800 a year.

World book day

    Other
  • Monday, April 6, 2015
    • | Nursery World
To celebrate World Book Day, everyone at My Little Angels Day Nursery in Upminster got involved in a sponsored walk.

The spring fair at Four Seasons Nursery in Glasgow

    News
  • Wednesday, May 28, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The spring fair at Four Seasons Nursery in Glasgow raised 500 for poor children in Bosnia, Croatia, Malawi and Romania. The development officer for the charity Scottish International Relief, Andrew Parker, visited the nursery last week to accept the 500 cheque and praise its fundraising efforts. For details see www.sircharity.org or ring 0800 6981212.

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, May 28, 2003
    • | Nursery World
'The most profound thing facing the new education minister isn't national tests or attainment levels or the jiggery pokery of justifying the PFI involvement in schools; it's the crisis caused by keeping disruptive children in mainstream education without the proper back-up resources. ' Melanie Reid, TheHerald

Childminders set up for communication

    News
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2007
    • | Nursery World
A new training programme will show childminders how to adapt their environment to improve children's speaking and listening skills, using a 50,000 grant from the Children's Workforce Development Council.

At the shops

    Other
  • Monday, February 23, 2015
    • | Nursery World
The pre-school children at Copper Beeches Day Nursery in Cheshire have been learning about money.

Learning & Development: Music - In concert

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 30, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Children aged five and under were the select audience for a series of concerts and workshops, with training for practitioners, as described by Stuart Bruce and Matt Carwardine-Palmer of Orchestras Live.

Northern Ireland Childminding Association

    News
  • Wednesday, October 22, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The benefits of childminding networks to employers will be explained in series of three seminars being held next month by the Northern Ireland Childminding Association, in partnership with Employers for Childcare. The seminars will highlight how networks are a cost-effective way for companies to support their staff because of the range of extra services they offer, including out-of-hours provision, long- and short-term cover, emergency back-up and occasional home-based care. The seminars are in Portadown (6 November), Coleraine (11 November) and Belfast (13 November). For more information, contact Carol Gallagher, NICMA regional childminding networks manager, on 028 9182 3350 or e-mail carol.gallagher@nicma.org.

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