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Editor's view

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2007
    • | Nursery World
We know that preparing for and implementing the Early Years Foundation Stage is top of mind for everyone working with children from birth to five. The next year will be crucial for local authorities and practitioners to get to grips with what best practice will entail and how that will fit with targets for improving outcomes.

Letters: Network for lunch

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, September 19, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Sharon Peach says that her day nursery has been inundated with responses to sharing ideas on treasure baskets (Letters, 23 August) and proposes that more nurseries network.

Letters: Handouts for Fraud

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, September 19, 2007
    • | Nursery World
I am concerned about the way families receive help with the cost of their childcare through Working Families Tax Credit.

In My View: Losing out to profit motive

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, September 19, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Purnima Tanuku's 'Profit or loss?' (13 September) makes some good points about government funding and the private sector, but unfortunately not her suggestion that 'profit' be replaced with 'surplus'. The dictionary defines surplus as, 'an amount left over when requirements have been met'. This is what the public perceive as profit, where funds spent on 'staff training, investment in resources...' and so on have already been included in budgeting and expenditure and therefore are not part of 'profit'.

Editor's view

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, September 19, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The debate over the place of private, voluntary and independent providers in childcare services rages on this week, following Helen Penn's launch of the International Centre for the Study of the Mixed Economy of Childcare (Nursery World, 30 August) and Purnima Tanuku of the NDNA's response about the need for profit to keep the PVI sector healthy (13 September).

Letters: Grant us freedom

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, September 12, 2007
    • | Nursery World
I agree with much of Marcella Cunningham's letter about the private sector (Nursery World, 30 August).

Editor's View

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, September 12, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The principle of early intervention to bring about change and improvement is firmly established across children's services. However, the idea of five-year-olds being warned off guns and the gang lifestyle by uniformed police officers might seem a step too far.

In my view: The roots of this violence

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, September 12, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The problem of violence impacts on us all. It uses our taxes in imprisoning young people and paying for their wounded victims. It's like a virus, forcing children who are protected to become more aggressive in order to survive.

Letters: How to do good food

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, September 12, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Like Gary Holmes (Letters, 26 July) I find it strange that there are still childcare providers who do not offer children a quality diet.

In my view: Eating organic is good for you

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, September 5, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Last year, sales of organic baby foods in the UK increased by 7 per cent and sales of organic finger foods, including rice cakes, rusks and biscuits, leapt up 48 per cent.

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