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Play safe

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
When you've spent the week looking after others, don't forget to look after yourself, writes Sue Hubberstey Which best describes your attitude to personal safety? Are you a Fearless Fiona who walks boldly about the streets, confident that nothing bad can ever happen to you? Or a Timid Tina constantly afraid when out and about, convinced that there is an attacker around every corner? In fact, both of these attitudes could cause you problems.

Accused teachers seek safeguards

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Teachers' unions have called for teachers accused of assault by pupils to be given anonymity until they are charged and to be awarded compensation if they are cleared of abuse. The unions broadly welcomed education secretary David Blunkett's announcement of plans to ensure that allegations of assault were dealt with promptly, within three months in all but the most complicated cases. Mr Blunkett also said last week that 1.4m would be available this year to fund a network of regionally-based co-ordinators to help governing bodies deal with cases.

Schoolgirls will get boy-free computer zones

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* All-girl computer clubs are to be set up in schools in England from this autumn by the Government. The clubs will be aimed at girls aged between eight and 14. The Government hopes they will create a virtual learning environment in which girls can develop their IT skills.

Innovative services

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
In Barrow in Furness, for example, Sure Start has set up a 'Chatterbox' scheme to help parents communicate with their children to prevent language delay. Health visitors and playgroups refer children identified as being at risk. 'It's a different way of working from the traditional speech and language therapy service,' says Lynda Hassall. 'The parents work in groups supported by extra therapists who are employed by Sure Start. The outcome is that the groups continue to meet and support each other. It's very important to facilitate this. It's what we're about.' The Barrow in Furness programme, which supports 1,000 children, has set up 50 projects run by local people - either on their own or in conjunction with the team - to meet the Sure Start objectives (see box below). It has also trained 20 local parents to act as community support workers.

Our recommended choice

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Some food for thought in your professional career MAKING SENSE OF EARLY LITERACY:A PRACTITIONER'S PERSPECTIVE.

Mr Wrong

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Nanny Alison Brown, aged 21, was devastated to discover that her new boyfriend had a dark past which posed a real threat to the children in her care, as well as to her career. She has a cautionary tale for other nannies. 'I had been living and working in Clapham, south London, for several months, looking after two children aged six months and three. It was a live-in job but because my employers' house was being renovated I was given my own flat across the road for the time being. I was happy in my work and enjoying a good social life.

Senior posts in early years for 1,000 aspirants

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* The Government plans to help up to 1,000 people in England obtain senior early years practitioner status by 2004 if Labour remains in power. Employment and equal opportunities minister Margaret Hodge told a House of Commons debate on nursery nurses last month, 'By 2004, we hope to be working with 1,000 people towards establishing a senior early years practitioner route that will be just below degree level and will enable the desired career progression for those who enter at NNEB level.' The plan is set out in a Green Paper published in February, Schools: Building on Success, which presents a string of targets for early years provision. It says that the Government wants more early education specialists to come through teacher training and will work on new routes into teaching and other senior early years practitioner posts 'so as to make the best of the skills and experience of the very large early years and childcare workforce'.

Kate Beith, head of Chiltern College (right), presented certificates to childcare students

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Kate Beith, head of Chiltern College (right), presented certificates to childcare students at last month's graduation ceremony at Lily Academy in Mito, Japan. The two institutions have forged strong links over the past eight years, with final-year students from the Academy visiting the College for seminars every year and six Chiltern students working for a year within the Academy's kindergartens and nurseries.

Editor's view

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Sure Start's own beginnings perhaps didn't live up to the programme's name, being rather shaky and unclear, but since 1999 the Government's scheme to improve the health and well-being of children in deprived areas has become a much-praised and dynamic agency for change. This week's Special Report ('Combined forces', pages 12-13) talks to some of the workers and parents involved in Sure Start initiatives to find out about the innovative ways that they are helping families to help themselves.

Cut flowers

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
You can keep the daffodils blooming all year round with this quick craft activity for children by Johanna Burkett Materials needed

Quote of the week

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
'We're very concerned about kids playing with roller skates, micro scooters or skateboards anywhere near roads, never mind hanging on the back of cars.' Jane Eason, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, about the cover of Geri Halliwell's new CD showing the singer on roller skates, clutching the back of a speeding Cadillac, The Sun

NVQ4 students heading for top

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The first three early years practitioners to take the fast track through a degree after achieving NVQ4 in early years care and education are expected to graduate in July next year. The three candidates have completed NVQ4 to CACHE's satisfaction, although this is yet to be moderated by the Early Years National Training Organisation. They are expected to take up places in September this year at an as-yet unnamed university which has given them two years' remission off its early years degree programme.

Bring a teddy to raise cash for sick children

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* Teddy bears are being enlisted in a summer campaign to raise money for children's healthcare. The charity Action for Sick Children, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, has teamed up with medicine manufacturers Sudocrem and Infacol to encourage parents, schools, playgroups and community centres to organise teddy bears' picnics as fundraising events.

Catholic workers face checks

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Roman Catholic church in England and Wales has been urged to carry out police checks on all clergy, staff and volunteers who come into contact with children, in a bid to stamp out child abuse and restore confidence in priests. The call for police checks followed the publication last week of the first independent report into child protection in the Catholic church in England and Wales, and is one of 50 recommendations aimed at making the church environment safer and more secure for children. The report, compiled by a committee headed by Lord Nolan, builds on guidelines on preventing child abuse published in 1994, with proposals aimed at improving existing diocesan and national structures and procedures, so that parishes are supported in their efforts to protect children in their care.

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