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  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Some readers seem to have a mistaken idea that we no longer offer a contact service for nannies wishing to meet other nannies in their local area. We will happily do so, but it all depends on nannies contacting us in the first place! We will not publish individuals' details but can pass them on to others who write in and ask. So, Lynne Wilson of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, would like to meet other nannies in the area, as would Mark Tann of Whitstable, Kent.

Chuff, chuff, chuffed

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  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
If there's a steam railway line near you, chances are it's running a Santa Special for the Christmas season. Throughout December Santa is boarding steam trains around the country distributing gifts for each child passenger, and mince pies and drinks for all. What cosier way to see Father Christmas - with moving scenery and no queueing out in the cold? Booking is advised now for the very popular Santa Specials on lines including the Bluebell Railway in Sussex (tel: 01825 720 806), the Watercress Line/Mid-Hants Railway (01962 733 810), Yorkshire's Keighley and Worth Valley line of 'Railway Children' fame (01535 647 307), the Northampton & Lamport Railway (01604 820 327), Kent's Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway (01797 362 353), the Swanage Railway in Dorset (01929 425 800), the Nene Valley Railway near Peterborough (01780 784 444), the Great Central Railway near Loughborough (01509 230 726), the East Somerset Railway (01749 880 417), the West Somerset Railway (01643 704 996), the Longleat House railway in Wiltshire (01985 844 400), the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway in West Lothian (01506 824 356), and the Isle of Wight Steam Railway (pictured) (01983 884 871), which also runs a Hangover Special on New Year's Day - mainly for the adults!

Bearing fruit

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  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Christmas decorations using materials you can munch on while you make them will reinforce the healthy food message, says Fiona Hamilton-Fairley With Christmas fast approaching, I thought it would be nice to look at ideas for making some special decorations for the tree as well as some edible goodies which will provide wonderful Christmas presents for friends and family.

Parents make 1,600 complaints to Ofsted

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
More than 1,500 complaints from parents about childcare provision have been logged by Ofsted's Early Years Directorate in its first four months of operation. Maggie Smith, chief executive of the Directorate, told the National Early Years Network's (NEYN) annual conference in London last week that since it took over the registration of all daycare in England from local authorities on 2 July, it had received around 1,600 complaints about the quality of childcare provision. She also revealed that to date the Directorate had received around 8,000 applications to register provision and that it was now overseeing 73,000 childminders, 23,000 group daycare settings and 7,000 out-of-school clubs.

All-day school plans anger nursery group

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  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Acontroversial vision of schools running 'cradle to college' services was unveiled by a national childcare charity at a conference last week. At its anual conference, called 'Reinventing Childcare', the Daycare Trust proposed that schools in every neighbourhood create children's centres offering a range of services including on-site care for babies and under-fives.

Tell the politicians

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
I run a small nursery with my daughter and we employ six full-time members of staff and one part-time to cover holidays and sickness. While I agree with Donna Barlow's comments in her letter ('Beggaring belief', 25 October) that nursery nurses are paid well below their value, I am annoyed with her suggestion that nursery owners are creaming off vast profits at the workers' expense.

Editor's view

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  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The early years landscape is changing fast, with the past few years seeing the introduction of free nursery education for three-and four-year-olds, the Foundation Stage, Sure Start, and the Early Years Directorate, plus the continuing growth of big nursery groups and the escalation in demand for under-threes provision. In response to all this, Nursery World has been changing too, as we launch new supplements and publish new feature series to provide the information and advice that practitioners need, as well as reporting the main news stories every week. Are we meeting your needs? How could we do it better? You've got your chance to tell us this week, as you'll find our readership survey enclosed with the magazine. Please take a few minutes to fill this in - it gives us a better picture of you the reader and your working life, and helps us decide what balance of coverage will suit you best. Your name will be entered into a great prize draw too!

TV and radio

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
24 November 'Witness - A Child's Choice'

In brief...Teachers in Northern Ireland are

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Teachers in Northern Ireland are being surveyed this week about the stresses and strains of their profession in a bid to establish healthier working practices. The wide-ranging questionnaire being put to 20,000 teachers covers workload, assaults in schools, physical health, diet and their drinking habits. Education minister Martin McGuinness said, 'Its purpose is to identify issues that may impact on teachers' health and well-being and, where appropriate, to develop strategies to encourage healthier working practices.' The research is being co-ordinated by a working group that includes representatives from the Department of Education, teachers' employing authorities and unions, and is being conducted by PriceWaterhouse Coopers. Its findings will be published next March.

Under the influence

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Early years practitioners tend to see 'peer pressure' as a negative influence on children but, says Jennie Lindon, it can also have a positive effect on a setting's atmosphere As well as all the positive influence that we hope to bring to bear as adults, children can influence each other's behaviour. The phrase 'peer pressure' tends to be used by early years practitioners, and parents as well, to explain situations when children provoke each other into less acceptable behaviour. But of course sometimes the pressure is positive. It is important to allow for ways in which peer pressure can work for a more harmonious day as well as when the influence veers towards disruption.

Project guide

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  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
This four-part project covers all six areas of learning, indicated by: Personal, social and emotional development

Slave labour of love

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  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
I am the owner/manager of an 11-place day nursery and I would love to pay my hard-working staff what they are really worth. But the truth is I can't, because if I did I would go bankrupt and then there would be no jobs at all. After I have paid my staff, paid my overheads - rent, rates, insurance, loan, subscriptions, accountant, gas, telephone, registration fee and so on - and bought any equipment and materials we need, there is little or nothing left.

Cooking the books

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Our October feature on unexpected extra duties for nannies sparked some memories for Debbie Chalmers NNEB of Cambridge. She writes, 'Back in 1992 I was a nanny to five children of two families who lived next door to each other. The eldest girl rode home from secondary school by bicycle and met me at her house when I had collected the younger children from primary school. But on the days she had a cookery lesson, she couldn't bring the finished dish home on her bicycle. So I was asked to drive her to school, meet her in the car park and take her cookery from her, then collect the other children as usual. The first time I did this, I wrote out the weekly invoice for her mother and added: "also collection of one apple crumble from school - no extra charge". Her copy of that invoice and mine have been kept as treasured reminders of those days, while the girl herself is now away at Oxford University.'

Night nurse

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A new agency specialises in staff who like to work flexible hours. Penny Vevers meets the nannies whose job it is to let the parents sleep like a baby Do you sometimes feel frustrated at not being able to take a holiday when you want to? Or are you keen to get home for longer than just Christmas day this year, or to earn some extra cash?

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