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How to read the feelings of the young disabled

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* A video to help special needs teachers and nursery nurses recognise the wide range of ways disabled children show their feelings has been launched by three charities. The NSPCC, Triangle and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation joined forces to fund and produce the 'Two-way Street' video and handbook, which challenge preconceptions about the way disabled children communicate. The pack gives information on teaching good practice, highlights common mistakes and stresses the rights of disabled children to be consulted.

Out-of-school care to have cash boost

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Out-of-school clubs in disadvantaged areas are being offered extended funding for up to three years through the New Opportunities Fund. The extra funding of 198.5m announced last week will provide support for the development and long-term sustainability of out-of-school provision throughout the UK. The money will also be used for a nursery initiative to provide capital funds for childcare establishments caring for nought to three-year-olds, expected to be announced during the summer.

'Smack and smoke' defended by Hodge

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Registerd childminders are to be allowed by the Government to smack the children in their care and to smoke in their presence with parental permission, under the national standards for daycare and childminding in England, Margaret Hodge confirmed last week. The equal opportunities and employment minister said there would be no changes to what has been announced already regarding the national standards, which the Department for Education and Employment expects to publish sometime this week. This means that from September, as well as childminders being allowed to smack and smoke, daycare managers and all in supervisory roles must hold a level 3 qualification appropriate to caring for children, with those in charge of baby rooms to have in addition two years' experience with that age group, and at least half of the remaining staff qualified to level 2.

Bring benefits into New Age, Government told

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* The Government should develop policies which make it easier for 'New Age' travellers to gain access to paid work and benefits such as Working Families Tax Credit while maintaining their itinerant, community-centred lifestyle, say researchers at the University of Bath. Their report, Making a living: social security, social exclusion and new travellers, published earlier this week, found that only one traveller out of 39 interviewed in the south-west of England had been able to hold down a temporary job and receive the tax credit.

Read on

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
If parents cannot read or write, how can they support their children's learning? Judith Napier sees what's being done More than 35,000 people swamped the television station's switchboard after a show about a father who wasn't able to read his child a bedtime story. There could hardly be a more devastating illustration of the need for family literacy programmes.

Key evidence

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
I was pleased that my 'In my view' column (5 April) about the value of keyworking was published but I was disappointed that there was not enough room for one of my points. I quoted research in the United States which shows that the best way to enable young children to develop is for them to have the same key person or co-person until they are three years old. Children who have had this experience are ahead of their peers by the time they are seven. They are not held back by frequent changes of key people with whom they have to bond before they can continue to develop.

Fundraising

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* Whizz-Kidz supplies a whole range of specialised mobility aids to young children and relies totally on voluntary fund-raising. Nurseries can play a big part. Last year,130 nurseries raised more than Pounds 19,000 by holding a special Whizz-Kidz 'Blue and Yellow Day' and Whizz-Kidz are asking more to join in this year, on 19 October.

Editor's view

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The issue of nursery nurses' pay is filling our news pages once again this week. In Glasgow, Unison members are taking to the streets later this month in support of a national pay claim for Scotland for nursery nurses in social services daycare and state schools. The single status agreement that is meant to sort out the regrading of these jobs is suffering from delays and does not, in any case, hold out a promise of much more money for nursery nurses. Across the sector as a whole there is disquiet that the level of pay remains so low for people who are doing such a vitally important job. 'We must as a Government surely do something,' says Barry Sheerman, chair of the Select Committee on Education. The Government's view, however, is that enough is already being done, and that the initiatives it is putting in place, such as the childcare tax credit, will trickle down and boost salaries. But many providers still feel that is impossible to pay their staff more and this, combined with the recruitment crisis, just means that they are unable to find enough good staff. Many in the sector believe that more direct intervention on pay is necessary.

More health tests for all newborns

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Pilot programmes for routine screening of newborn babies for hearing problems have begun in two health authorities in England. The first of the universal hearing screening pilot sites started in Nottingham Health Authority and Redbridge and Waltham Forest Health Authority last month. Another 18 sites will begin in the next few months.

Let children get close to learn to be caring

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
I am an experienced and qualified nanny of 16 years standing and have also worked part-time in nursery schools. I have just read the feature 'Firmly attached' (29 March) and must say that I have always been horrified by the attitude of pushing away any closeness shown by a child. Children need to know who to turn to when they are unhappy or feeling under the weather. If something very personal has happened in their home life, who can they talk to? It is not right for a child to bottle up his or her feelings and this is what happens, even from as young as six months, if they do not have a key worker. Of course a child may become upset if that person is absent due to illness or holiday - this is as natural as becoming upset when a pet dies.

Classical act

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Music comes alive for nursery children when a member of a national orchestra is calling the tune. Joyce Reid sees the effects of a session in the universal language Not many three-and four-year-olds can recognise an oboe, but those at Sighthill Nursery in Glasgow can. And if they think 'Oh no, I've forgotten', they will quickly remember 'Oh no, it's an oboe.'

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