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Pet prizes

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
On a Europe-wide horizon, the child you care for could be a contender in a drawing competition and be invited to travel to Strasbourg for the European Parliament's 'Pet Night' next year. The European Federation of Animal Health, which promotes pet ownership for happier living, launched the competition at its Pet Night ceremony last month. Children in the age categories of three to four years, five to six years, seven to eight years, and nine to ten years can send a drawing of their pet by 31 July 2001 to Pet Night, c/o FEDESA, Rue Defacqz 1, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium.

Children sold their own home-baking at the farmers' market in Forfar

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Children sold their own home-baking at the farmers' market in Forfar, Scotland, to raise funds for the BBC Children in Need appeal. The stall was run by the Stirrin' Stuff family cooking campaign, whose founder, Fiona Bird (left), said, 'It is all about stirrin' something up and talkin' about all sorts of stuff.' She can be contacted at fiona@cookingonline-scotland.com. Photo Paul Reid

In brief...The child protection charity

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The child protection charity the NSPCC intends to double the number of children it helps through its phone helplines. Measures being introduced from February will allow about 80,000 calls to be answered, nearly twice as many as at present. John Cameron, head of NSPCC helplines, said they offered 'confidential advice and counselling with a qualified child protection officer, 24 hours a day, seven days a week'. The helpline number is 0808 800 5000.

Childcarers told of new tax credits

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Plans for a replacement for the Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC) were revealed by the Government at the Daycare Trust's annual conference last week. Paymaster General Dawn Primarolo MP, addressing the Trust's annual conference in London, said it was important to devise a more transparent system where all families were included. She said the new integrated child credit will be available to all families with children, subject to their income. There will be no work requirements, enabling parents such as student nurses who were previously excluded, to claim. The new credit will also be aimed at supporting people as they move into work.

From the cradle

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
As the Government's lifelong learning reforms turn to the under-threes, Mary Evans asks what the forthcoming framework of effective practice should offer The programme of reforms with which the Government has transformed the educational landscape of the country is entering the final phase with the launch of a project focusing on the under-threes.

Trust fund

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
What would you think if your employer was checking up on you? Helen Kewley counts the cost of nannies' freedom Some weeks ago I was approached by a security company who wanted me to send out leaflets to my clients advertising their wonderful new nanny surveillance equipment. The owner offered to pay me a very generous commission should a client buy one of his systems. Apart from the fact that people would be suspicious of my checking procedures if they felt it necessary to install surveillance, the idea of anyone being spied on by hidden cameras horrifies me, so I refused his offer.

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Winter is here and the nights are long - a time when nannying at night sounds rather cosy (see this month's feature on specialising in just that). But as we draw indoors our thinking and feelings turn inward too. Are you perhaps too cosy and settled in your relationship within someone else's family? Or do you confess to yourself that you don't like a child it's your job to care for? Our features on p6 and p8 address the emotional entanglements that often occur in such a personal sort of job. And it's not just the children - the trickiest web to negotiate may be your relationship with your adult employer. How do you prove your competence? How do you establish a sense of trust? It may seem it's all down to you, as long as there's no official regulation of nannying to back you up - as two more features consider (p14 and p16).

'Merry' Christmas!

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Diplomatic skills will be needed to deal with parents who have taken the spirit of Christmas a bit too far, says Mary Evans It might seem inconceivable that a responsible parent could contemplate drinking and then driving with their children, but nursery managers report that it does happen. Part of the problem is that people can easily find themselves subject to tremendous peer pressure to share the festive spirit at their work Christmas party. So, how can childcare professionals protect their charges if a parent over-indulges?

Jabs to avoid

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
To deny children nursery places because they are not vaccinated (News, 18 October) would amount to blatant discrimination . Some children are not vaccinated purely due to parental choice. Others, however, are refused some vaccinations on medical grounds. My second child suffered febrile convulsions. His subsequent siblings were refused my requests for vaccinations on the grounds that there was 'a history of convulsions'. How could you fairly discriminate between the various reasons for non-vaccinated children?

Reader offer fix it quick

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A great stocking stuffer this Christmas for home childcarers would be Quick Fixes for Bored Kids and its sequel, More Quick Fixes for Bored Kids, just published this week by How To Books. Tommy Donbavand's pocket-sized guides are packed with ideas for games and activities on rainy days, sick-in-bed days, holidays, car journeys and parties, and every chapter lists things to keep in your 'boredom box'. We've arranged a special discounted price for Professional Nanny readers who can buy both books together for 8.95, plus 1.25 p&p, instead of the retail price of Pounds 5.95 each. You can order your copies from How To Books, Customer Services Dept, Plymbridge Distributors Ltd, Estover Road, Plymouth PL6 7PZ (tel 01752 202 301), quoting reference 'Nanny' and allowing 21 days for delivery. And see January's issue for another great offer!

Letting go

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Are you too attached to the childrenin your care? Find out with this quiz by Sue Hubberstey and Jan Hurst 1 The child you care for likes to come into your room before school starts. Do you:

Answers and scores

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
1 A=1 B=2 C=0 If you answered A you deserve a point for teaching manners, but be on guard against encouraging attention from the child you care for when you are off duty - it could become a habit. C answers need further investigation: is it really in your job description, or are you just desperate for physical contact? B denotes a professional attitude and proper boundaries being set.

Like it or not

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Sometimes you just don't like a child in your care. Jennie Lindon says there's probably more to it, and more you can do When you start out as a nanny, you anticipate that there could be many things that could make you reluctant to get up in the morning. But probably low on the list is the thought that you can't face the children.

All-day plan for schools stirs criticism

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A controversial vision of schools running 'cradle to college' services was unveiled by the Daycare Trust at its annual conference last week. Delegates at the Trust's conference, called 'Re-inventing Childcare', heard proposals for schools in every neighbourhood across Britain to create children's centres offering a range of services including on-site care for babies and under-fives.

Child Base staff have been urged to get on their bikes

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Child Base staff have been urged to get on their bikes as part of the nursery chain's green policy. From this month they can take interest-free loans for bicycles, and new nurseries will have covered bike racks and shower facilities with changing rooms. Three who got into gear are (from left) Charlotte Strawbridge, Karley Sales and Louise Austin.

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