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Interview - Lea Dryburgh, Morningside Children's Nursery, Royal Edinburgh Hospital

Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

Lea is one of eight nursery nurses who formed a workplace co-operative to take over the management of the nursery. Labour leader Ed Miliband recently visited the nursery.

Report highlights the diversity of provision in children's centres in deprived areas

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Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

Stay and Play is the most commonly run service offered by children's centres in deprived areas, according to new research into the way centres are managed and the type of provision they offer.

Nursery World's Noticeboard - Olympic events, graduations and Ofsted outstanding

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Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

See what nurseries across the country have been up to.

Gove signals further moves towards deregulation

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Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

Education secretary Michael Gove has made the clearest indication yet that he sees 'deregulation' as the way forward for the early years sector.

Take twos... a flying start for parents

Features

Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

A nursery in Poole has helped all its two-year-olds to settle happily in by working with parents and emphasising key messages to do with their children's learning and well-being. One of these is that young children need their parents' time more than anything else, says James Hempsall.

The Big Picture: Edinburgh city centre becomes a big play area

News

Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

Children and their families in Edinburgh enjoyed playing with water during National Playday on 1 August.

Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements, part 4: Risk Assessments

Features

Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

The revised EYFS has taken into account the sector's views on cutting red tape and removed the need for written risk assessments. Mary Evans finds out what this means in practice.

Further expansion for Co-operative Childcare

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Thursday, August 2, 2012

| Nursery World

The Co-operative Childcare has acquired four new settings, bringing the total number of nurseries in the group to 47.

Number of under-fives set to soar

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Monday, July 30, 2012

| Nursery World

The number of children attending maintained nurseries and primary schools is set to increase by around 20 per cent in the next eight years, according to Government figures.

Ofsted issues new guidance for inspecting EYFS

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

| Nursery World

Guidance for inspectors carrying out early years inspections under the new early years inspection framework has been published by Ofsted.

Funding to boost vitamin D intake in pre-school children

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

| Nursery World

Early years settings can apply for a grant of up to 5,000 to fund projects that promote vitamin D and encourage children under the age of five to take supplements.

Star Photo: Badger's Barn Private Day Nursery

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Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

Children and their dads and granddads from Badger's Barn Private Day Nursery in Helsby, Cheshire worked together to make their own den using sheets, canes and rope.

Funding cuts force children's centres to cut back on childcare

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Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

Two children's centres in the London borough of Barnet, one of them 'outstanding', are having to reduce the amount of childcare provision they offer as the council switches funding to centres in more deprived areas.

Childcare Commission - the Government wants your ideas

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Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

The Government is calling on early years and childcare providers, parents and others to put forward their ideas about how to make childcare more affordable and accessible.

New benchmarking tool will let providers compare data on local authority funding

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Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

Just how local authorities split early years funding between private and voluntary nurseries and maintained provision in schools and nursery schools has long been a bone of contention.

Interview - George Furnival, Krizevac Project UK Co-ordinator

News

Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

The charity set up the first children's centre in Malawi, Africa, which is based on the Sure Start model.

Nursery owners complain about the extra red tape

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Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

New Government guidance for local authorities on the free entitlement for early education is intended to cut red tape, but Nursery World has heard that some local authorities are imposing even more stringent conditions on private and voluntary nurseries.

Nursery World's Noticeboard-bug hotels and mucky play

News

Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

See what nurseries across the country have been up to.

Sure Start works better for parents than for children

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Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

Sure Start local programmes have had more impact on parents than children, the latest findings from the national evaluation of Sure Start show.

The Big Picture - LEYF's Olympic work of art

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Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

Children at London Early Years Foundation's (LEYF) Queen's Park Nursery are creating their own works of art to be included on a map of London touring the social enterprise's 23 settings in an Olympic-style relay.

In Numbers

News

Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

In 2011, there were 3.5 million children under five in England and Wales, 406,000 more than in 2001.

Children's centres to reduce childcare staff

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Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

Around one in five children's centres are planning on making childcare staff and teachers redundant this year as a result of cuts to local authority budgets, research by 4Children suggests.

Shortage of holiday childcare in two-thirds of the country

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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

| Nursery World

The school summer holidays are just starting for many children, but two-thirds of local authorities in England will not have enough holiday childcare for working parents.

Council to close six children's centres from August

News

Friday, July 13, 2012

| Nursery World

Six children's centres in Coventry are set to close next month, because the council says the settings are not being used to their full potential.

New early years funding tool

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Friday, July 13, 2012

| Nursery World

Early years providers will now be able to compare how much funding they receive for the free entitlement with settings in other areas.

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Interview - Lea Dryburgh, Morningside Children's Nursery, Royal Edinburgh Hospital

Report highlights the diversity of provision in children's centres in deprived areas

Nursery World's Noticeboard - Olympic events, graduations and Ofsted outstanding

Gove signals further moves towards deregulation

Take twos... a flying start for parents

The Big Picture: Edinburgh city centre becomes a big play area

Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements, part 4: Risk Assessments

Further expansion for Co-operative Childcare

Number of under-fives set to soar

Ofsted issues new guidance for inspecting EYFS

Funding to boost vitamin D intake in pre-school children

Star Photo: Badger's Barn Private Day Nursery

Funding cuts force children's centres to cut back on childcare

Childcare Commission - the Government wants your ideas

New benchmarking tool will let providers compare data on local authority funding

Interview - George Furnival, Krizevac Project UK Co-ordinator

Nursery owners complain about the extra red tape

Nursery World's Noticeboard-bug hotels and mucky play

Sure Start works better for parents than for children

The Big Picture - LEYF's Olympic work of art

In Numbers

Children's centres to reduce childcare staff

Shortage of holiday childcare in two-thirds of the country

Council to close six children's centres from August

New early years funding tool

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