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Safe funding for early years is welcomed

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  • Wednesday, October 12, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Early years organisation NIPPA has welcomed the Labour Party's commitment to ring-fence funds for the early years sector in Northern Ireland as a 'timely, landmark decision'. The secretary of state for Northern Ireland and Wales, Peter Hain, delivered a series of commitments to improve children's life chances in his speech at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton.

Open for business

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  • Wednesday, October 12, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Building work has begun on a new private nursery in Billericay, Essex. Dizzy Ducks Day Nursery, in the grounds of Buttsbury County Infant School, will offer 30 places for children nought to five years and is due to open in November. For information see www.dizzyducks.co.uk.

Parents step up battle with local council

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  • Tuesday, April 19, 2011
    • | Nursery World
A group of parents who are fighting to save 28 children's centres in Hampshire from being merged or privatised travelled to Downing Street on Monday (18 April) to submit a petition of 22,000 signatures.

Prove yourself

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  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Can a Quality Assurance scheme make a difference for children and families? Christine Goldsack issues a challenge Many providers will be wondering whether it is worth their while undertaking a Quality Assurance (QA) scheme, particularly if they already have waiting lists and good Ofsted reports.

Our recommended choice

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  • Wednesday, October 12, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Early Childhood Education (3rd edition) By Tina Bruce (Hodder Arnold, 0 340 88972 1, 17.99, 020 7873 6000) Reviewed by Marian Whitehead, language and early years consultant

The Scottish Storytelling Network

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  • Wednesday, March 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The Scottish Storytelling Network is holding a national development day on 30 April in Falkirk, with talks and information on training and resources. For details and to book a place, for 15 or 10 with concessions, call 0131 5576 9579 or see www.

Keep it off the record

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  • Wednesday, October 12, 2005
    • | Nursery World
I am writing in response to Eleasha Bonsor's letter about keeping records on staff who make bogus complaints to Ofsted (Letters, 22 September). I am in total agreement with this, as my own setting has also been a victim. When Ofsted inspectors came they could find no justification for the complaint, but it will still be included on our record. Ofsted says it can do nothing about this and that it has to record such issues so that parents looking at reports are aware of complaints against a setting, justified or not.

Letters: Letter of the week - Speaking matters

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  • Tuesday, April 19, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Our pre-school is currently taking part in our local authority's 'Every Child a Talker' project and I was fortunate to attend a conference and hear Jean Gross, the Government's Communication Champion.

What a night!

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  • Wednesday, October 12, 2005
    • | Nursery World
More than 150 guests gathered at the Business Design Centre in north London on Friday 30 September for the very first Nursery World Awards - a glittering black-tie gala event to celebrate excellence in the early years sector. The guests, many of whom had already enjoyed a day at the Early Years and Primary Teaching Exhibition, were treated to a champagne reception. Then it was time for dinner and a nail-biting wait before the award winners were announced.

Sitters work round parents' needs

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  • Wednesday, March 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Plans are underway to launch a new sitter service in Angus to provide affordable, flexible home-based childcare. The development follows the success of the first sitter service set up six years ago by One Parent Families Scotland and follows other services established in Aberdeenshire earlier this month, and in North Lanarkshire three years ago.

All on board

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  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Partnership working across sectors in Worcestershire has required hard work but has been rewarding, says Alison Hitchins Partnership is now a common word for all those involved in the planning and delivery of services for children and families. From their inception in 1998, Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships were expected to build working relationships with those from the private, voluntary and independent sectors, and with maintained provision.

CfBT acquires Manor Tree to take Top 20 slot

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  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The Centre for British Teachers (CfBT), the not-for-profit education and training company, announced on Monday that it had acquired the Manor Tree group of nurseries, a chain with eight settings based in the south-east of England and London. The Manor Tree Group was previously the 17th largest nursery operator in the UK and Ireland, with 806 places (Nursery Chains, summer 2005). Its five standalone nurseries are in West Norwood in London, and Binfield, Iver and Slough in Berkshire. It also has three nursery units attached to independent schools in Berkshire and Surrey.

Autistic children to learn family communication

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  • Wednesday, March 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A new therapy is aiming to develop communication skills between pre-school autistic children and their parents. A four-year trial of Pre-School Autism Communication has received 1.3m of funding from the Medical Research Council and will be conducted at the University of Manchester. It will study the effectiveness of a treatment to improve parent/child communication and develop the social and language skills of autistic children aged between two and five before they start school.

Council gives nursery stay of execution

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  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A consultation into primary and nursery school provision in east Lancashire which threatens at least one nursery school with closure has been extended until next spring. Lancashire County Council launched a major review into provision in May, after a report revealed a surplus of more than 1,000 places in Rossendale's nursery and primary schools (Nursery World, 26 May).

Playgroup wins quality mark for teaching

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  • Wednesday, August 21, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A Welsh playgroup has become the first to be awarded the Basic Skills Agency Primary Quality Mark in recognition of its high standard of teaching in literacy and numeracy. Castleton Baptist Church Playgroup in Newport can display the Primary Quality Mark to show that it provides a framework for continuous improvement of the basic skills of the 43 children in its care. To gain the award, the playgroup was visited by accredited assessors who had to be satisfied that it placed a high priority on developing each child's numeracy and literacy skills by assessing and reviewing progress, encouraging parents to work with children, implementing an action plan to improve children's skills and providing staff training.

Arts in action

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  • Wednesday, March 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Young children broadened their cultural horizons and stretched their artistic talents in a unique project that brought satisfaction to all concerned, as Marie Charlton reports In 2003, the Arts Council England launched its DECIBEL project to 'raise the voice of culturally diverse arts in Britain'. As an early years consultant, I saw it as an exciting chance to nurture the creativity of young children in St Helens, Merseyside, by combining the passion of local black and Asian artists with early years work in an area that is dominated by a white British monoculture.

Survey respondents

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  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A total of 1,081 Nursery World readers took part, with one in five respondents coming from the south-east, 15 per cent from the Midlands, 11 per cent from the south-west and the rest fairly evenly spread across the UK. More than a quarter work as managers/leaders and a fifth as nursery nurses/nursery assistants. Nearly a third of the people who took part work in a private nursery/nursery school, about a quarter work in pre-schools, 12 per cent in maintained settings and just under 10 per cent in Sure Start schemes and children's centres.

Nursery activities

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  • Wednesday, March 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Making bookmarks during a 'night and day' topic provided an ideal opportunity for our children to develop their manipulative skills and to learn how to handle books with understanding. Planned learning intentions

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