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My week at work

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Name: Richard Copperwaite Position: Learning Support Assistant

Happy snappers win cameras for their nurseries

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* Young photographers picked up their prizes in a national competition picturing celebrations in nurseries, held to mark National Childcare Week. A special ceremony at Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood in London last Thursday saw the first prize go to four-year-old Heather Offord from the Ipswich Opportunity Group in Suffolk, whose photo celebrated Mother's Day. The second prize winner was Aziza Bangura, age two, from Blooming Babies in Ilford, Essex, whose photograph celebrated Red Nose Day, and third prize went to Frances Stacey, age four, from Chelmsford YMCA Day Nursery in Essex, for her photograph celebrating Easter. The winners each received gift vouchers and their nurseries were presented with cameras and photo albums.

'Boycott charities against smacking'

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A leading churchman in Northern Ireland has called for a boycott of a children's charity because it opposes the smacking of children. The Rev Ivan Foster, convenor of the Free Presbyterian Education Board and minister of Kils- keery Free Presbyterian Church in Co Tyrone, last week called on Christians in the Province to think twice before donating money to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). He accused the charity of siding with education minister Martin McGuinness and Sinn Fein as part of an 'evil plan' to attack the denomination, which permits corporal punishment in its independent schools.

Inspectors left to waste

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
By Ann Hutchinson, a registered general nursery inspector from Clapton, Somerset Registered general nursery inspectors have had no say in the workings of Ofsted's new Early Years Directorate, despite our heavy involvement in improving the educational aspect of early years education.

Rush to register holiday schemes

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Ofsted has advised providers wishing to set up holiday playschemes in England this summer to get their applications for registration to their local council as early as possible and well before July, when it will take over new registrations. The schools inspectorate has published a guide for providers, 'What to expect from the regulation of childcare services', which warns that its Early Years Directorate will not be able to process applications for holiday playschemes in July and August.

Same choice for all

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
As a registered childminder, I read with great disappointment the news story 'Smack and smoke defended by Hodge' (10 May). Margaret Hodge, the employment and equal opportunities minister, insists that the issue is one of a relationship between a childminder and a child's parents. This seems totally illogical. If this is the case and she believes in true parental choice, then why can't parents give permission for playgroup and pre-school workers, nursery staff and teachers to smack children and to smoke in front of them? This sounds ridiculous, doesn't it?

Editor's view

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The race is on to get Ofsted's Early Years Directorate up and running. But time is short and the issues and problems that need to be sorted out are many, as our coverage this week shows. The national daycare standards have finally been published, and our Special Report ('On the road', pages 10-11) looks at the main requirements and changes that have been made from the draft proposals. However, the much-needed guidance to accompany the headline standards is not due out until early July, by which time the EYD should be taking over new applications for registration. There seems to be a squeeze on getting holiday playscheme applications through, with Ofsted warning that providers should apply immediately to their local council as the EYD will not be able to process registrations for playschemes in July and August (see News, page 8).

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
'Childcare is an issue in a changing society. If you want the manpower, you should be obliged to provide support. If the Government isn't going to take responsibility, the employers should - they're the ones who need the manpower. It can't be that expensive to amuse a three-year-old!' Single mother Rosemary Baldry, 37, on BBC News website

Childcarers enjoy celebratory week

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Jugglers, jazz bands, face painters and storytellers were out in force to help make last week's National Childcare Week enjoyable and memorable. The London borough of Wandsworth planned its week's activities around a theme of listening to children. There were events for providers on consulting children, and parents participated in listening to children workshops.

A right to reserve

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
At last, we have somebody brave enough to admit that smacking is acceptable, in Margaret Hodge. I am fed up with 'professionals' making me feel that I have brought my children up badly because I used smacking as part of their discipline. Children need to know that defiant behaviour is unacceptable.

Let's keep on learning for its own sake

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
I am a first-year BA Early Childhood Studies student and I am writing to say that I fully support the comments made by Emma Thorley in her letter ('Let's get all the knowledge we possibly can', 26 April). When I read the earlier letter about degree students (8 February) I wanted to reply but could not find the right words to say. But I believe Emma has now said exactly what needed to be said.

Proud of our NVQ

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
My fellow students and I were very disappointed with the comments made by John Wads-worth (Letters, 3 May). We are studying very hard in our first year of the NVQ Level 3 course, with most of us also juggling family commitments and a job. What qualifications and right does Mr Wadsworth have to make a stereotypical and scathing attack on our efforts to gain this qualification? It is very disheartening.

On the road

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The new national standards for daycare will be up and running in three months' time. Ruth Thomson compares the operating model with the proposals before consultation The final version of the national standards for daycare are with us at last, sneaked out quietly by the Department for Education and Employment on the day the General Election was announced. Despite the Government saying there are no significant changes, the DfEE has indeed slipped in various amendments, reworded some criteria and added others.

Smoking damage to children in focus

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The effects of cigarette smoke on children have come under fresh scrutiny in a new report by the World Health Organisation. The report, How second-hand smoke harms and kills non-smokers, has been published as part of World No Tobacco Day (31 May), a global event it has co-ordinated. It points out that 'at least' 40 substances in cigarette smoke have been shown to cause cancer and lists a number of its more immediate effects on children, including an increase in bronchitis, pneumonia and other respiratory illnesses, acute and chronic middle ear infections, and a trigger for asthma attacks in asthmatic children.

In brief

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Latest Government data show a rise in children in funded pre-school education in Northern Ireland, from 10,758 in 1995-96 to 17,878 in October 2000. Of these, 11,931 are in nursery schools or nursery classes in primary schools, 1,990 in reception classes/groups, and 3,957 in funded places in playgroups and day nurseries. The statistics also report the religious affiliations of children in pre-school education. as 51.6 per cent Roman Catholic, 40.7 per cent Protestant, 1.3 per cent other Christian and 0.5 per cent non-Christian, with 5.9 per cent of either no religion or not recorded.

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