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List identifies workers banned from childcare

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  • Wednesday, January 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Childcare employers and voluntary organisations in Scotland can now check job applicants' suitability to work with children under the Protection of Children (Scotland) Act 2003 which came into force on 10 Janaury. The Disqualified from Working with Children List aims to prevent people who have harmed children, or exposed them to harm, from working with children in either paid or voluntary positions.

Carers urged to ask about child injuries

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  • Wednesday, July 10, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Childcarers have been warned to watch more carefully for signs that babies and infants may have been abused or neglected by their parents. The call was made by Richard Green, NSPCC senior consultant and the co-author of a report on infant protection published earlier this week. The NSPCC report, What Really Happened?, was launched on Monday in Denver, Colorado, at an international conference on child abuse and neglect.

A review of child and family policy developments in the UK

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  • Wednesday, June 1, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A review of child and family policy developments in the UK has been published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The child and family policy divide: tensions, convergence and rights by Clem Henricson and Andrew Bainham can be downloaded from www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop.

Funding axe threatens children's services

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  • Wednesday, January 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The withdrawal of the Children's Fund in Northern Ireland in 2006 will jeopardise more than a hundred programmes aimed at vulnerable children, leading children's charities warned last week. Barnardo's Northern Ireland has said it is set to lose almost 1m when the funding ends.

Study days

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  • Wednesday, January 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Launched last year, the NVQ for teaching assistants lays down a specific role and recognises how much support these practitioners now supply in the classroom. The qualification spans four key support aspects of a classroom assistant's work, covering the pupil, teacher, curriculum and school. Importantly, it provides a career structure, giving employers a clear picture of the skills a teaching assistant possesses.

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