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Assembly debate on children's rights

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  • Wednesday, July 4, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The appointment of a children's commissioner to represent Northern Ireland's 500,000 children and young people came a step closer following a lengthy debate in the country's Assembly last week. The debate was opened by Democratic Unionist Party member Edwin Poots, who is chair of the committee for the children's commissioner. He described the initial announcement in January of the intention to appoint a commissioner as 'a step towards ensuring that our children can grow up in a society, safe from exploitation and abuse, where their rights are protected and where their needs are met'.

Excellence in Childcare awards ceremony

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  • Wednesday, July 4, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Kellie-Ann Fitzgerald (centre) was named Playworker of the Year at the Kids' Clubs Network's annual Excellence in Childcare awards ceremony in London last week. She received her award from Linda Robson, star of the BBC comedy series 'Birds of a Feather', and Stuart Hayward of sponsors JMC, the holiday operators. Kellie-Ann, who runs the Cuddles Eager Beavers out-of-school club in the London borough of Walthamstow, was described by the parent who nominated her as a 'fine ambassador for childcare services', gifted with 'considerable kindness and generosity of spirit'. The Latchkey Project at Balham Family Centre in London won the award for Best Out-of-School Club, praised for offering a caring, sharing environment and a timetable packed with well-thought-out activities, down to a Hallowe'en sleepover for which staff give up their weekend. Rollercoasters Playcentre in Camden, London, which offers a service for children with disabilities and complex needs, won the Most Creative Activity Programme award for its art exhibition 'A Sense of Movement', showcasing the children's work. The Prima Childcarer of the Year was Samantha Morris, a classroom support worker at Ammansford Infants School in Carmarthenshire.

Reader offer

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  • Wednesday, January 24, 2007
    • | Nursery World
We have five copies of Let's Pretend Maths by Helen Williams (BEAM Education, 29.50, tel: 01242 267 945, www.beam.co.uk) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or envelope, marked 'Let's Pretend Maths', to the address on page 3. Winners will be the first five names drawn on 8 February 2007.

'Grill candidates about childcare'

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  • Wednesday, May 16, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Childcare providers and parents are being urged by a national childcare charity to ask all general election candidates in their area where they stand on childcare issues. The Daycare Trust has highlighted five key questions to ask candidates during National Childcare Week (20 to 27 May). The questions are:

Sssss-Sensory Visit

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  • Monday, April 2, 2018
    • | Nursery World
The Zoo Lab dropped into Windmill Hill Day Nursery in Swindon to showcase their creepy-crawly insects and minibeasts.

'Hang on to your ideals, partners'

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  • Wednesday, May 16, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The early years sector needs to hold on to its ideals despite worries about quality, sustainability and the complexity of funding streams, delegates at the annual general meeting of the Association of Advisors for the Under-Eights and their Families were told last week. The comments were made by Colette Kelleher, former director of the Daycare Trust who is now a member of the DfEE's advisory team on early years. She said Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships need to show they have secured resources for the 'retained functions' of providing support and advice, which will become their responsibility in September after Ofsted takes over the regulation of early years and childcare from local councils.

NVQ is failing young people

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
By Pat Field, proprietor of the Rosie Lea Montessori Nursery in Leeds In the feature 'Pressure points' (12 April) Richard Dorrance, chief executive of CACHE, says that he does not accept that there were major variations in the standards of NVQs. Nor does he accept that the language of the NVQ system and the complex cross-referencing system poses problems for many candidates either - even though both these issues have recently been raised as areas for concern in a report produced by the Training Standards Council. However, the truth is that this system has been failing its younger candidates for years, because there is nothing 'vocational' about the way this qualification is marketed. The NVQ system is no longer aimed at, or made easily affordable to, the target group it was supposedly designed for - the unqualified staff already working in childcare, with years of experience and skills.

Home truths

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The 15 March edition of Nursery World reported a study by the Institute of Social and Economic Research which apparently showed that children with mothers who worked full-time were less likely to achieve well at school. I feel this is very unfair on the parents, and for those of us who work hard to provide a quality service for their children. Parents have every right to choose to work. This does not mean they do not care about the welfare and education of their children. Studies such as this just make mothers feel guilty for doing something that they are entitled and may need to do.

Project guide: bags

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  • Wednesday, February 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
This project recognises that: * settings should be constantly resourced and organised in such a way as to offer learning opportunities across all areas of the Foundation Stage curriculum

Count yourself in

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
It only happens once every ten years, and Britain's annual population census is upon us on 29 April. Live-in nannies may be wondering whether they should be included on the form for their employer's household, or their parents', or do their own. The Census 2001 customer service advises us that a live-in nanny is counted as part of the household if they share at least one meal a day and/or a sitting room. Other census information says that as the count is now being done according to where people are usually resident, students should be counted at their term-time address. In any case, nannies can request their own separate form from the enumerators who deliver the forms to each household by hand. Forms can then be collected or sent back in the reply-paid envelope provided. The data collected is essential for assessing and planning public services, so everyone should take part - besides, it's compulsory and there is a 1,000 fine for not returning a form or for giving false information! And the form's questions about employment and workplace just might finally yield some figures for the number of nannies working in the UK. One group found to have been widely missed out in the previous census was newborn babies. This year the Government is trying to catch more of them and, in a joint promotion with Tesco and Bounty Bags, a special sleepsuit is being presented to every baby born on census day. Any questions about the census can be put to the helpline on 01329 813 800.

Qualifications to build from choice of units

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  • Tuesday, January 23, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Childcare students will be able to cherry-pick units from different awarding bodies when the new Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) is fully implemented in 2008.

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