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Delegates told of their vital role in ending racism

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* Early years workers have a vital role in the fight to end race hate, delegates were told at a conference in London last week. Gurbux Singh, chair of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), addressed early years workers at the 'Tackling Race Hate' conference organised by the Early Years Trainers Anti Racist Network (EYTARN). The conference, which will be repeated in Leeds on 1 May, investigated the role of early years providers and how they can access national and local initiatives to help build antiracist communities, as well as how to acknowledge incidents of abuse and aggression and to respond with children and colleagues.

Look, listen, smell, touch

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A new book from Nursery World on working with babies and the under-threes explains their development and suggests activities for encouraging it. Here we offer an extract from the book on how you can enhance the growth of their senses Looking and seeing

Reader offer

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
We've got ten copies of Nursery World's brand new book Play and Learning for the Under-Threes by early years experts Jennie Lindon, Kevin Kelman and Alice Sharp (9.99) to give away to readers. This easy-to-read book on the key stages of birth to 12 months, one to two years and two to three years is packed with activities to fill the young child's day with learning and fun. Just send your name and address on a postcard to the address on page 3 by 26 April. The first ten picked at random will win. You can also order it from the Nursery World bookshop on 01454 617370.

Private nurseries also need a shot in the arm

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Further to the news story that childminders in poor parts of England are to receive support funding (22 March), since the introduction of nursery vouchers by the Conservative Government followed by the nursery education grant under Labour, we now find that at school intake time in September and January we lose between eight and 12 children, from both our nursery and our after-school club. As I write it is the end of March and we have only just started to fill our vacancies. Meanwhile schools are due to receive a massive cash injection from the Government and childminders are due to receive financial support up to twice a year, if they can't fill a vacancy in two weeks. As a private day nursery we still have to maintain our staff:child ratio of 1:5, pay rent, wages, bills and food costs and pay for our inspections. Where is our help and support? Where is our recognition of who we are and our valuable and necessary contribution? Where is our financial aid to tide us over and help us? I'll tell you - it is nowhere.

Stigma on minders

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
In response to the letter by Maggie Dyer (15 March) about childminders being allowed to smoke and smack, I would like to tell her that we childminders are fighting to change this. We don't want the right to smoke in the presence of children. May I add that I am a smoker myself and I have never and will never smoke with children in my care. I would also refuse to smack children in my care, even if requested. I have it printed in my registration. So please help those of us who are working to lose this stigma that has been unfairly attached to us by the Government.

What's on! at the show

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
CLASSROOM AND NURSERY RESOURCES Synergy Learning manufactures and distributes numeracy, literacy and science resources for whole and front-of-class teaching. More than 20 new products will be unvieled on stand J12 including the Synergy Slider. Number Boards and Science Boards and a range of Show Mewhiteboards. A complete range of Punctuation Fans for their existing Story Boards will also be available.

Trauma measures for children at nurseries in foot and mouth areas

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Nurseries and pre-schools in rural parts of England and Scotland are struggling with the psychological impact on children of the foot and mouth epidemic. Some nurseries and pre-schools are using circle time to deal with children's worries that farm animals are being burnt alive and fears that their domestic pets will be affected. One teacher reported children drawing pictures of trenches being dug - but at least one child was excited about the mechanical diggers.

Pressure points

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Concerns about wide variations in the quality of candidates getting NVQs could increase with new funding methods, as Mary Evans reports National Vocational Qualifications were designed to equip the country to meet the challenges of the 21st century by improving the calibre of our workforce through assessments of their practical skills, knowledge and understanding of their work.

Leapfrog rolls out voucher scheme in bid to expand

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
One of Britain's fastest-growing nursery chains has made a bid to become a major player in the provision of workplace childcare by launching a voucher scheme. The Leapfrog scheme has already won the business of high street chains Vision Express and Alliance and Leicester, representing a combined total of 11,000 employees. Staff from participating companies chose to take part of their salary in vouchers, which enables both the company and the employee to save money as the scheme is exempt from National Insurance.

Attractions at Bristol Zoo Gardens

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Yew, a Javan langur, and her baby, Jerry, are just two of many attractions at Bristol Zoo Gardens over this Easter holiday. As well as the langurs, children can see seals and penguins, and other favourites including Twilight World and the Reptile House, as well as joining the Easter bunny's egg hunt to find a free chocolate egg. There is also plenty of 'hands-on' fun in the activity centre where children might meet a spider or touch a snake. Bristol Zoo Gardens is open every day from 9am to 5.30pm. For further details, contact 0117 970 6176.

Making contact

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Practitioners who work with young children are being scared off physical contact with them, believes John Powell, though it's something that all children need It seems so natural and important to be able to give a child a hug when they are upset and need the reassurance that words alone cannot give. But many of the assumptions that are taken for granted about the benefits of touch are now being questioned. A sense of unease, sometimes verging on panic, has entered this area of professional practice.

Other side of the story

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Left-handed children face challenges in a world designed for right-handers. Maggie Jones shows how you can help Around one in nine children are left-handed. Although the days are gone when they were forced to fit in with a right-handed world, left-handed children do have special difficulties that receive little help in most nurseries and classrooms.

Quote of the week

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
'We need to stop turning our schools into warehouses for amphetamines. Schools have become modern-day prisons with children drugged for purposes of social control' the late Professor Steve Baldwin of Teesside University on the prescribing of Ritalin for children diagnosed as having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, The Herald

Childcarers excused from fees for checks

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Childcarers in England will be exempted from paying for their criminal record checks during the Criminal Records Bureau's first year of operation from this autumn. The decision to exempt childcarers followed a campaign against the 12 fee led by the National Childminding Association (NCMA). In February the charity warned the Home Affairs select committee on charging for criminal record checks that making childminders pay for checks on all the adults in their household could lead to a drop in the number of registered childminders. NCMA chief executive Gill Haynes said then, 'So many Government strategies now rely on increasing the numbers of registered carers to enable families to participate in work and training while their children are cared for in a safe environment. The prospect of charging childminders and their families for criminal record checks therefore seems deeply unwise.'

Rafaidah Al-Duais enjoys scooting around the playground at Owlder Brook

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Rafaidah Al-Duais enjoys scooting around the playground at Owlder Brook Nursery and Infant School. The school, in Fir Vale, Sheffield, Yorkshire, is the first of six in the city to be built by a consortium for 50m under the Private Finance Initiative. The consortium is responsible for repairs and cleaning, while Sheffield City Council pays an annual fee to use the building as a school. Photo Richard Hanson/Guzelian

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