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New skills for nanny

    News
  • Tuesday, October 16, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Parents hunting for a good nanny should look for football skills and an ability to pilot an imaginary helicopter, according to the website thenannysharers.co.uk. In a poll it also found that 70 per cent of parents thought nannysharing was the best childcare option. Co-founder Theresa Byrne said, 'They believe it offers them quality and flexibility they wouldn't otherwise find.'

Ofsted wants to reveal complaints

    News
  • Wednesday, May 14, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Ofsted is looking for legal avenues that would let it tell parents the results of any investigations into complaints made by them against daycare providers without the provider's consent. At present parents are not told the result of any investigation carried out by Ofsted, unless the daycare provider investigated allows Ofsted to do so.

Teddies Bexleyheath celebrates 'outstanding' ofsted

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  • Tuesday, October 16, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Children, parents and staff at Teddies Nursery in Bexleyheath, London, celebrated being the first nursery in the Teddies chain to gain an 'outstanding' Ofsted report since BUPA took it over. Inspectors reported that the nursery staff were 'very imaginative' and showed 'dedication to each and every individual child'.

Research: Children reveal global worries

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  • Tuesday, October 16, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Today's young children are worried about climate change, global warming and terrorism as much as they are about a shortage of safe play areas, gangs and guns, according to the first report in a major independent review of primary school education.

Early years crucial to life chances strategy

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  • Thursday, May 19, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Plans set out in the Queen’s Speech to focus on improving life chances for disadvantaged families will not work unless the Government tackles child poverty, charities say.

Nursery market value soars

    News
  • Wednesday, May 14, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The UK day nursery market was worth an estimated Pounds 2.15 billion in 2002, more than five times its value at the start of the 1990s, according to a recent report published by the healthcare consultancy Laing & Buisson. Private sector providers generated 1.93 billion of the total, with the lion's share coming from sole traders or partnerships, which had a total income of 1.05 billion. Providers trading as companies earned 0.88 billion. The remainder of the total was generated by not-for-profit providers such as voluntary sector nurseries and local authorities. The market's total value grew by an estimated 16.5 per cent between 2001 and 2002.

Montessori seeks to resolve qualifications delay

    News
  • Tuesday, January 18, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Representatives from the Montessori and Steiner awarding bodies are meeting with officials from the Children's Workforce Development Council and the Department for Education in London in the next few weeks to discuss the future of Montessori and Steiner qualifications.

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