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Applications for the National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership

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  • Wednesday, April 12, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Applications for the National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership (NPQICL) programme are due in by 28 April. The qualification is now in its second year and provides multi-agency training for managers in integrated early years settings. The programme fees are subsidised by the National College for School Leadership. For information on how to apply see www.ncsl.org.uk.

Children's minister Beverley Hughes and Ofsted's director of early years, Dorian Bradley

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  • Wednesday, April 12, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Children's minister Beverley Hughes and Ofsted's director of early years, Dorian Bradley, will address the National Day Nurseries Association annual conference being held on 5-6 June in Kenilworth, Warwickshire. The conference aims to provide business advice as well as guidance on childcare, with other speakers including BBC television personality Rene Carayol, presenter of 'How to Pay Off Your Mortgage in Two Years'. The third official NDNA Annual Awards dinner also takes place on 5 June, celebrating excellence in the day nursery sector. Visit www.ndna.org.uk for details.

CWDC puts 3.3m into local plans

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  • Wednesday, April 12, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) is to invest 3.3m in local workforce initiatives as part of its 2006/07 Business Plan. The plan was published last week and further details are to follow next month. Part of the 3.3m will be used to support local workforce strategies to deliver areas of the Children's and Young People's Plan.

Education action plan has broad remit

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  • Wednesday, April 12, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A programme of action for education from now up to 2010 has been launched by the Welsh Assembly. 'The Learning Country 2: Delivering on the promise' identifies key actions the Assembly aims to take in relation to early years education, schools, special educational needs, the 14-19 agenda, children and young people's participation, further and higher education, skills and supporting practitioners.

Association and the British Heart Foundation

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  • Wednesday, October 10, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Sue Wayne, regional manager of the Stroke Association, listens to the heart of seven-year-old Emma Buggins, who had a stroke when she was four, at the start of Stroke Awareness Week. The event, run jointly by the Association and the British Heart Foundation, aims to warn the public that unless children become more physically active they run a higher risk of strokes and heart attacks as adults. Sue Wayne, regional manager of the Stroke Association, listens to the heartbeat of seven-year-old Emma Buggins, who had a stroke three years ago when she was four. They were at Canary Wharf to publicise the start of Stroke Awareness Week, a joint initiative between the Association and the British Heart Foundation. The Foundation said that because one in six children say they don't have time to do physical activities, it was seeking to highlight the fact that unless children become more active now the number of strokes and heart attacks will increase in the next 30 to 40 years when they are adults.

Building work has begun at Links Children's Centre in Wecock, Waterlooville

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  • Wednesday, April 12, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Building work has begun at Links Children's Centre in Wecock, Waterlooville, with 250,000 funding from Hampshire County Council. The new facilities should be finished in August and will include a pushchair store, a community room and an external play area. The centre aims to become a one-stop shop with services ranging from childcare and early education to parenting courses and family health.

Maggie may?

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  • Wednesday, October 10, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The early years sector responded with anxiety to the news that Ofsted was to take over care inspections from local authorities. The idea conjured up images of an invasion of bureaucrats bullying childminders into a state of nervous exhaustion. The then chief inspector of schools, Chris Woodhead, offered little in the way of reassurance when he insisted that neither the head of the directorate, nor its management team, needed specific early years experience.

TummyTubs used in cooling down phase of mother and baby classes

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  • Tuesday, March 31, 2009
    • | Nursery World
The tub is the place to wind down after a baby massage class in Ijmuiden, the Netherlands. Practitioners use the water-filled TummyTubs in the cooling down phase of the classes for mothers and babies to simulate a womb-like environment and help infants to relax in the familiar foetal position. The TummyTub was designed in the Netherlands with the aim of easing the child's transition from its mother's womb to the outside world.

In defence of Rose

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  • Wednesday, April 12, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The Rose Review, in my opinion, reaches entirely sound conclusions. A judicious balance is struck between three sources of evidence: theory, research, and practice. Rose notes that research shows systematic phonics teaching enables children to make better progress than unsystematic or no phonics. The evidence is so strong that there should not be any argument against the use of systematic phonics teaching for initial literacy.

Sector's expansion 'limited by low pay'

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  • Wednesday, October 3, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A report, Who will care?, launched at the Labour Party conference in Brighton this week, puts childcare among the lowest-paid jobs in Britain, with childcarers earning less than gardeners and cleaners. It says a day nursery manager earns an average of 13,000 to 14,000 a year, and a teacher working in a nursery class up to 18,000.

Nutmeg gets adopted

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  • Wednesday, October 3, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A book to help young adopted children to understand why they have been separated from their birth parents has been published by the British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering to coincide with National Adoption Week. Nutmeg Gets Adopted was written by Judith Foxon, an adoption worker in Nottingham. It is available for 10 (plus 2.50 p&p) from the BAAF on 020 7593 2072.

Playgroup places lost to council oversight

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  • Wednesday, October 3, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Playgroups in some parts of Leicestershire may have to close and more than 500 children could lose their free places because the county council has underestimated the demand for provision.

Children should not be punished in order to control their parents

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  • Wednesday, April 5, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell says children should not be punished in order to control their parents Something about the Children Act principle of 'the best interests of the child' eludes this Government. So fixated is it on a macho performance over immigration that it is locking up child asylum seekers, subjecting them to dawn raids and even putting them in handcuffs.

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