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Nursery nurse members of Unison in West Yorkshire

    News
  • Wednesday, July 2, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Nursery nurse members of Unison in West Yorkshire have settled a long-running pay dispute with the local authority, which puts them among the highest-paid nursery nurses in the north of England. Members of the Kirklees branch voted to accept the council's offer on 23 June, following nine days of strikes in April and May. The new pay structure brings nursery nurses closer in line with classroom assistants, who can earn up to 15,000 a year, following an agreement with the council in November last year. Meanwhile more than 100 nursery nurse members of Unison in the London borough of Tower Hamlets have been out on strike since 13 June over the LEA's decision to change their 52-week contracts to 'term-time only'.

Road safety

    News
  • Wednesday, July 2, 2003
    • | Nursery World
All out-of-school clubs that are registered with the Scottish Out-of-school Care Network are to receive a new pack to teach children road safety. It includes resources such as board games and suggests physical activities to help get the road safety message across. Clubs and playschemes can also obtain the pack from the Scottish Road Safety Campaign, either from the website on www.srsc.org.uk or on 0131 472 9200. The pack was launched by minister for transport Nicol Stephen to coincide with Child Safety Week, which started on June 23. He said, 'Education is a key part of improving road safety. This new pack proves that children can have fun while learning its fundamental messages.'

British Dental Foundation propose ban

    News
  • Tuesday, October 14, 2008
    • | Nursery World
A ban on sales of fizzy drinks and sugary snacks on all healthcare and education premises has been proposed by the British Dental Foundation, which called for the ban after NHS Tayside in the Angus, City of Dundee and Perth and Kinross areas of Scotland announced last week that it is to stop stocking unhealthy drinks in vending machines and canteens. BDF chief executive Dr Nigel Carter said, 'Sugary products taken between meals are the main cause of tooth decay, which can lead to fillings and extractions. Poor diet has been linked with gum disease, which not only threatens tooth loss, but overall health. Research is proving time and again that gum disease is linked to diabetes, heart disease, strokes, and premature and low birth-weight babies.'

Pirates of dorking

    Other
  • Friday, August 23, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Active Learning in Dorking was taken over by pirates in a special performance for parents and friends.

Nursery Chains: The big league

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 23, 2012
    • | Nursery World
You'll find some new names in our Top 25 table of nursery groups this year, and in the directory too. Catherine Gaunt analyses the ups and downs in both size and quality of the chains.

The work of a successful child development programme in Scotland

    News
  • Wednesday, February 13, 2002
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - The work of a successful child development programme in Scotland looks set to continue thanks to a Pounds 70,000 cash injection. The Play@home activity scheme, originally set up in 1999 by Fife Council and Fife Primary Care NHS Trust, will receive 35,000 from both the council's Children's Services Committee and the NHS Fife Board. The three-step activity programme offers parents fun ways to interact with their children and stimulate co-ordination and activity from birth to nursery age. Fife's chair of children's services, councillor Helen Law said, 'Play@home is a wonderful example of what can be achieved when agencies combine their skills to provide joined-up services tailored to meeting the needs of children.'

Neighbourhood grants awarded

    News
  • Wednesday, February 13, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The first New Opportunities Fund (NOF) grants towards neighbourhood nurseries were awarded last week. The Fund's Building Neighbourhood Nurseries programme has awarded grants totalling 154,094 in Herefordshire, Newcastle and Bolton to renovate and construct new neighbourhood nurseries.

Opinion: Editor's view

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 21, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Why doesn't nursery food figure in plans for improving the quality of children's lives?

National Childcare Week

    News
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2003
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Lauren Spence, aged four, gives her dad, Paul, a hug after winning the under-fives section of the National Childcare Week children's art competition for her picture of her male hero, singer Gareth Gates. Lauren, from First Class Nursery in Edinburgh, won a game and a Pounds 50 voucher, and her childcarer, Khatoon Shafi, won a 75 gift voucher. The entries in the competition, organised by Nursery World, the Daycare Trust and Bright Horizons Family Solutions, are on display until the end of June at London's IMAX cinema.

In a tangle

    News
  • Wednesday, April 20, 2005
    • | Nursery World
There's no avoiding regulations but there are ways that nurseries can ease their way through complying with them, as Mary Evans explains Business leaders gave a sceptical welcome to last month's Budget proposals to reduce the spider's web of red tape. While Chancellor Gordon Brown accepted the recommendations of two key reports on cutting regulations, the Government itself was accused of increasing the bureaucratic burdens on business by almost 39bn in the past eight years.

Scotland's first internet nursery

    News
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Scotland's first internet nursery has gained the Investors in People award for its commitment to staff training and development. Technotots Nursery in Dundee installed webcams last year to allow parents to watch their children 'live' online. It completed requirements for the national quality standard in only six months, ahead of the average length of assessment time of 18 months. Nursery manager Angela McGoldrick said, 'Investors in People is an excellent way of raising standards within individual organisations. Promoting and sharing of best practice in a comparable, open and honest communication forum across the industry could have a similar effect in raising standards, and thus the status of the industry.'

Star photo: Dizzy Ducks, Ongar

    Other
  • Friday, May 17, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Children from Dizzy Ducks Nursery, Ongar, went on a search to find the Gruffalo in Thorndon Park in Brentwood, Essex.

Healthy eating is on the menu at Teddies Nurseries

    News
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Healthy eating is on the menu at Teddies Nurseries, BUPA's UK childcare business. It has joined forces with the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) to create the Healthy Nursery Menu Awards to recognise good food standards at Teddies' 36 nurseries, which care for about 2,000 children. Among the BNF's ten criteria for a good weekly menu for children are that dishes should vary so they are more likely to receive a range of nutrients; meals should include a good source of iron, for example, red meat; a source of vitamin C, such as orange juice, should be served with vegetarian meals to improve iron absorption; a calcium source such as fromage frais, yoghurt or cheese should be served daily for healthy bones and teeth; fresh fruit or a fruit-based dessert should be offered daily; and vegetables should be served every day. Ten Teddies Nurseries have won gold awards for satisfying at least eight of the standards, while others received silver and bronze awards. The chain said it plans to use the BNF recommendations to bring all its nurseries up to the gold standard.

Autism study findings

    News
  • Wednesday, October 29, 2008
    • | Nursery World
First-born children with older mothers and fathers have a greater risk of developing autism than later children of young parents, according to a new study. Funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, looked at the records of 240,000 children born in 1994, identifying 1,251 as having autism. Researchers said that the study provided evidence that maternal and paternal age are associated with autism. Mothers surveyed aged 35 or over had a 30 per cent increased risk of having an autistic child, while the fathers aged over 40 had a 40 per cent higher risk then fathers aged 25 to 29.

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