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Rights for children 'must top agenda'

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  • Wednesday, June 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The new Government should appoint a Children's Rights Commissioner for England to act as an independent champion for all children, according to a report by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In the report, The UK Review of Effective Government Structures for Children 2001, which was published shortly before the election, the charity described as 'erratic' the Government's commitment to children's human rights in its domestic policies since 1997. It noted that while Wales had appointed a children's commissioner, the Northern Ireland Assembly had made a commitment to establish the role and a committee of the Scottish Parliament was consulting on the idea, there were currently no plans to create a children's commissioner for England.

Taking action

    News
  • Wednesday, June 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Early years staff need to be familiar with the new SEN Code of Practice that will include pre-school children for the first time from this September, says Collette Drifte The Special Educational Needs Code of Practice, which has been in schools for some time, has been revised by the Department of Education and Employment. It will now include pre-school children. At the time of writing there is only a consultative document, but the final version, due to be published some time in the summer when the SEN and Disability Bill has wended its way through Parliament, is unlikely to be very different. The new Code will have to be implemented from September this year, but because of the short timescale, it is unlikely that pressure will be put on providers if it is not fully operational in their setting.

Attitudes that drive men out of childcare

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  • Wednesday, June 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World
I was heartened to read in the feature 'Men wanted' (24 May) that the Government hopes to get more young men interested in working in childcare. I wish them luck, because this male childcarer is seriously considering leaving the profession. I feel society as a whole does not understand young men wishing to become childcarers. Ever since at age 16 I decided to become a childcarer I have had my sexuality questioned almost weekly. This has become very wearing. Is this aspect easier for men who join the profession after starting a family?

TV and radio

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  • Wednesday, June 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World
17 June 'The Joy of Water - The Source'

Iain Howie from Haddington Infant School

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  • Wednesday, June 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Iain Howie from Haddington Infant School, East Lothian, felt extra-special when the school won this year's Scottish Schools Ethos Award. Haddington, with 400 pupils from nursery to P3, makes great efforts to prepare children for moving to primary with a special 'passport' scheme and social activities with older children. Photo Alistair Linford

In brief...The Liberal Democrats

    News
  • Wednesday, June 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Liberal Democrats beat both Labour and the Conservatives by a substantial margin in an internet poll conducted by Nursery World during the general election campaign. Visitors to our website were asked which party they would vote for based solely on manifesto pledges for the early years sector. Fifty per cent of people polled by last Friday chose the Liberal Democrats, with 22 per cent for the Tories and18 per cent for Labour. The full results can be found at www.nursery-world.com

Morris heads new education remit

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  • Wednesday, June 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World
New education secretary Estelle Morris will be heading the Department of Education and Skills (DES) as a split in the Department for Education and Employment became one of the first changes made by the new Labour Government. Ms Morris, a former teacher in Coventry, takes over from David Blunkett, who has been made home secretary in the newly formed Cabinet. From May 1997 she was school standards minister at the DfEE, and she was promoted to minister of state in July 1998. During this time she helped deliver improvements in primary school standards and introduced performance-related pay for classroom teachers. She also took the decision to intervene in the running of local education authorities where they failed to deliver a high quality service for schools, and created City Academies and Specialist Schools.

Scotland could lead UK for early years

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  • Wednesday, June 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Policymakers in Westminster are being advised to take a close look at Scotland's approach to early years education and care, in a report published this week by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The report, Early childhood education and care policy in the United Kingdom, is officially launched in Stockholm today (Thursday) at a conference on early childhood education and care policy organised by the Ministry of Education and Science in Sweden and the OECD. Completed last December, it takes an overview of early years policies in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Good practice tips

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  • Wednesday, June 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The best ways to be alert to young children's play choices include: * Use your skills of observation in a relaxed and informal way: look, listen and observe what the children are doing and in what way.

Our panel of experts

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  • Wednesday, June 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Tricia Pritchard Professional officer at the Professional Association of Nursery Nurses (PANN), and chair of Playpen

Courses and conferences

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  • Wednesday, June 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World
18 June Men in childcare: recruitment, training and opportunities This seminar by Men in Childcare will bring together expertise from Europe and Scotland in the recruitment and training of male workers.

New code of practice: Taking action

    News
  • Tuesday, June 12, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Early years staff need to be familiar with the new SEN Code of Practice that will include pre-school children for the first time from this September, says Collette Drifte

Challenge Tina

    News
  • Tuesday, June 12, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A charity in Singapore was grateful for some English leadership on early education, says Gerald Haigh

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