Nursery World's Nursery of the Year 2014, Manor House Nursery School in Margate, combines strong community and family links with excellent practice. Ruth Thomson went to visit.
In the first instalment in a new series on the integrated review, Dr Kay Mathieson looks at why the process is a key opportunity to improve relationships with parents and carers.
'Inclusion is a process of identifying, understanding and breaking down barriers to participation and belonging' - Early Childhood Forum (2003)
Know what the likely conditions are for hay fever attacks among the children and how best to deal with them with tips from Jan Hurst.
Staff in early years settings will have to take special care in food handling if a child is intolerant to gluten. Coeliac UK offers advice.
"I'm a teacher and have a child with Down's syndrome in my class. I really have no idea what that means or what the implications are."
All settings need to audit their safeguarding children policy, say Laura Henry and Catherine Rushforth.
Recently, during a busy Monday clinic, a mother brought her son in to see me. He had recently suffered a cold and for the last 24 hours had been more clingy and been limping on his left leg.
Providing nursery food with sustainable credentials is one way that providers can help set children up for a better future, says Snapdragons' Mary Llewellin.
By Mary Dickins, early years consultant (All Together Consultancy/London Met. University)
