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Four-year-old Lori-Ann Moran

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Four-year-old Lori-Ann Moran keeps a look-out for lawbreakers at Birch Services police post off the M62 near Manchester. PC Mike Monks treated Lori-Ann, who wants to be a policewoman when she grows up, to a spin in a high-powered car and a day in the life of a traffic officer as part of an event promoting police work as a career for women. Photo Guzelian

Cash incentive

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Scotland is introducing a single qualifications and careers framework for staff, but is it too much too soon? Simon Vevers investigates The Scottish Executive courted controversy a few months ago when it suggested that local authorities did not need to have teachers in all nursery classes. The EIS teachers' union warned that it could mean the quality of provision being 'diluted', with the creation of a postcode lottery in the educational provision available for nursery-age children.

On a roll

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Our new series looking at the work of local authorities in providing children's services around the country starts with a visit to Bradford, West Yorkshire by Simon Vevers The process of integrating children's services in Bradford is gathering pace, with the recent appointment of a children's services director and a rapid expansion of both the extended schools and children's centres programmes.

Vandalism in Leyland, Lancashire

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
An area plagued by vandalism in Leyland, Lancashire, is about to see the completion of a 640,000 family support centre. Services will include early education and childcare, child and family health support and links to Jobcentre Plus, childcare information services and local schools.

Seamless service

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A support scheme for young disabled children and their families has transformed their lives, says Sue Learner Twenty years ago, Helen Norris, now head of pre-school services for the London borough of Bromley, gave birth to a baby with Down's Syndrome.

Time to reform child benefit

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
By Kate Green, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) Sixty years ago, the first universal benefits for families with children were introduced. Paid in most cases directly to the mother, from 6 August 1946 family allowances formed a key plank of the post-war welfare state. The CPAG are pleased to be celebrating 60 years of support for children, but we believe the time is right to increase child benefit and pay it at the same rate for all children.

Degrees of success

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I have been reading the letters about the need for graduate managers in nurseries with interest. While I agree with the importance of experience and understand that in-depth study is not for everyone, I do object to the perception of a graduate manager being one who prioritises 'budgeting and number-crunching and is removed from the grassroots of why we provide childcare in the first place' (Letters, 24 August) I am a pre-school manager and have recently gained a BA (Hons). While managing financial resources was covered as part of my degree, this was a very small part of my qualification. I studied in great depth the foundation curriculum, managing people (very important when dealing with staff as well as children), child development, special educational needs, the importance of therapeutic play and also looking at stereotypical attitudes and assumptions. There may be some graduate managers who are as Nicola Dickinson describes, but there are also some like myself who have studied long and hard to achieve their degree and remain focused upon the children and families and use their qualification to support them as best they can.

DfES sticks to fund terms

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  • Wednesday, August 30, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The DfES has reiterated its determination to ban top-up fees and insisted that childcare providers offer 38 weeks of 'free' nursery education. A letter sent to local authority chief executives last week from DfES official Grahame Archer 'was only reinforcing what was said by Beverley Hughes a month or so ago', according to a DfES spokeswoman.

Nurseries dispute CWDC's staff age survey results

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  • Wednesday, August 30, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Nursery providers have expressed surprise at a claim by the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) that the average age of nursery staff is 32. The CWDC has stated that only 14 per cent of an estimated 100,000-strong nursery workforce are aged 29 and under - a finding that the director of one leading nursery chain described as 'bizarre'.

Parents polled on graduate EYPs

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  • Wednesday, August 30, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Parents want early years professionals to adhere to clear standards and possess knowledge, skills and relevant experience, but some parents believe that a degree may not be crucial, a report from the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) revealed last week. The CWDC asked 45 children and 29 parents and carers what they thought of the draft standards and what skills and behaviour they would expect from EYPs.

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