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Management round table: implementing a smoking ban

    Features
  • Wednesday, February 22, 2012
  • | Nursery World
Manager's dilemma:'I would very much like to ban smoking from my nursery but as quite a large percentage of our staff are smokers I am not sure where to start. I understand that it is legal to request that no-one smokes on the premises but I am worried about enforcing this, and the ill-will it might cause.'

Take twos.. continuity of care

    Features
  • Friday, February 3, 2012
  • | Nursery World
The expansion of the free entitlement for disadvantaged two year-olds will require new solutions to meet demand for places and new relationships between providers. James Hempsall describes how this has been the case in Stockton-on-Tees, where a holistic family approach has focused on providing continuity between a specially created playgroup and the children's centre.

Ofsted withdraws its 'outstanding provider' packs

    News
  • Monday, January 23, 2012
  • | Nursery World
After Huddersfield nursery group Portland Nurseries received an outstanding for two of its sites in December, director Rosemary Murphy was looking forward to flagging it up with the marketing materials Ofsted has always provided. However, after numerous phone calls and emails she has now learnt that the packs have been withdrawn.

Early years nutritional guidelines welcomed

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  • Friday, January 20, 2012
  • | Nursery World
Child health experts have welcomed the first-ever nutritional guidelines for early years settings in England, while taking issue with the fact that they are not mandatory.

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