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Opinion: A huge step for carers

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 26, 2008
    • | Nursery World
The case of Sharon Coleman, the mother of a disabled child who took a legal case to Europe to establish that she herself was protected from disability discrimination, has had a lot of coverage in the media. Much of it, however, has been misleading. 'Six million carers win right to flexible working', shouted the headlines.

Opinion: Apprenticeships - Minding the gap

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, August 20, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Apprenticeships can fill the skills gap in the childcare sector and bring benefits to employers, says David Way, national director of apprenticeships at the Learning and Skills Council.

Opinion: Editor's view

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, August 20, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Initiatives on nutrition are timely and well-meaning, but directed at the wrong age group.

Opinion: Editor's view

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 12, 2008
    • | Nursery World
In the battle for votes at the next election, universal childcare will not be easy to deliver.

Opinion: Stop the soft sell of junk

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, July 30, 2008
    • | Nursery World
It's not new to say that children's diets are in crisis, while 92 per cent of children consume too much saturated fat, 86 per cent consume too much sugar, and 96 per cent do not eat enough fruit and vegetables.

Opinion - Parents have to decide

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, July 23, 2008
    • | Nursery World
A father recently e-mailed me asking for advice about the freedoms he should grant to his son. I don't know him, or his son, and don't know anything about where he lives. Which, by the way, is Melbourne, Australia. Why he might think that I would be better placed than him to decide, I have absolutely no idea, and my reply said as much. So what are we to make of the NSPCC and Children's Legal Centre, which last week told parents they should not leave children under the age of 13 home alone?

Opinion: Nature's way to learn

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, July 16, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Sir Peter Williams' report on maths teaching has much of value, and suggestions for a sensitive approach to the early years goes some way to calming the alarm bells.

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