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Opinion: In my view - Reinserting dummies

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 16, 2007
    • | Nursery World
When someone mentions dummies, what comes to mind? Is it a mother in a supermarket laden with shopping, children in tow and a large dummy in the toddler's mouth? Or is it the middle-of-the-night mother pacing the floor with a screaming newborn?

Letters: Profit to society

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 16, 2007
    • | Nursery World
I very much welcome June O'Sullivan's call for a debate about profits in the nursery sector (Letters, 4 October).

Opinion: Editor's view

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, October 10, 2007
    • | Nursery World
It's time young children stopped being used as guinea pigs for public entertainment.

Letters: We're in it together

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, October 10, 2007
    • | Nursery World
I believe Jon Richards' column (20 September) responding to Purnima Tanuku's 'Profit or Loss' feature (13 September) highlights a division in understanding.

Online ... See who's saying what at www.nurseryworld.co.uk

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 2, 2007
    • | Nursery World
I chose childcare because I didn't want to be stuck behind a desk or checkout, even though I could earn more doing that kind of work. I love working with children and I know that working in this sector can open many doors. - Kezzie - Nursery nurses' wages

Letters: Letter of the week - Let's have a debate about ourprofits

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 2, 2007
    • | Nursery World
I was pleased to read Purnima Tanuku's article on why making a profit is essential to a healthy nursery (Special report, 13 September). She is right when she says that profit is a word that we avoid in the early years sector because the idea that a setting is 'making money' out of parents and children is abhorrent.

In my view: In a quick-fix culture ..

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 2, 2007
    • | Nursery World
In a quick-fix culture, it's easy to imagine children can grow up faster too. But you can't speed up the growth of an organism as complex as a human being.

Letters: In defence of the NVQ

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 2, 2007
    • | Nursery World
What a shame that the writer of 'Does Ofsted get the full picture?' (Letters, 6 September) has such a poor experience of NVQ training at levels 2 and 3. My colleague and I were horrified to hear of the NVQ assessor's appalling practice. One has to wonder how a self-respecting assessor could make an objective judgement regarding the competency of the learners in the manner described.

Letters: Hang on to that paper

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 2, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Further to Laura Henry's article on record-keeping (Policies and procedures, 23 August), I would remind Nursery World readers that current regulations indicate that they should retain their Employers' Liability Insurance Certificates for a period of 40 years from the commencement of their insurance policy. It seems a very long time, but we did have an Employers' Liability case recently that commenced in 1988!

To the point ..

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Parents need to be encouraged to ask difficult questions, says Pat Wills.

In my view: The impossibly perfect parents

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2007
    • | Nursery World
My belief is that the 'parenting industry' is marketing a simplified and unrealistic view of parenting, which is based on the notion that to be a parent is a series of problems to be solved and techniques to be mastered.

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.

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