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Childminders rise to new regulations

    News
  • Wednesday, October 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Most childminders in Wales are now meeting regulation requirements, amid a continued rise in daycare standards across the country, according to the Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales (CSIW) annual report. Rob Pickford, chief executive of CSIW, said, 'The most significant improvements in Wales are in daycare services for under-eights.

Care experts put theory into practice

    News
  • Wednesday, October 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A team of education and care consultants have become owners after their 1.4m purchase of a day nursery. Education consultants and Nursery World authors Linda Thornton and Pat Brunton and care consultant Martin Pace have bought Westerfields Day Nursery in Worthing, East Sussex, one of two nurseries previously owned by Nestledown Child Care.

Cuts threaten an end to London Play

    News
  • Wednesday, October 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A voluntary organisation that promotes inclusive play opportunities for children across London is fighting closure because of funding cuts under the London Councils' grant scheme (News, 12 October). London Play has written to political party leaders and the capital's 33 council leaders asking for support. London Councils' grant committee has said that increasing access to play and physical activity for children and young people should no longer be a funding priority.

Under scrutiny

    News
  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The process of registering your setting can be long and a little daunting. Miranda Walker explains who needs to register and gives a step-by-step guide to how to do it

Soft toys put on swine flu hit list

    News
  • Tuesday, August 4, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Nurseries should remove teddy bears and soft toys to reduce the spread of swine flu between children, say Government guidelines.

Project guide

    News
  • Wednesday, March 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
This four-part project covers all six areas of learning, indicated by: Personal, social and emotional development

Start with a Difference

    News
  • Wednesday, October 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Start with a Difference: Promoting Race Equality in the Early Years. By Julie Taylor. (Jewish Council for Racial Equality, 15 plus 3 p&p, 020 8455 0896) Reviewed by Gina Houston, vice-chair of Early Years Equality

Sure Start inquiry

    News
  • Tuesday, August 4, 2009
    • | Nursery World
The Children, Schools and Families Committee is to undertake an inquiry into Sure Start Children's Centres and is calling for written evidence into the effectiveness of the children's centre model and policy delivery.

Uion members

    News
  • Wednesday, September 29, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Three-quarters of respondents did not disclose whether they are members of a union or not, but of those who are in a union well over half are members of Unison. Almost half of the Unison members in the survey work as local government employees in primary schools or council-run nurseries, while only 9 per cent work in private schools and nurseries.

Apprentice boost

    News
  • Tuesday, August 4, 2009
    • | Nursery World
An additional 170 early years apprenticeships for 16- to 19-year-olds are to be created by the Scottish Government.

A great yarn

    News
  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
To give children the satisfaction of creating something for themselves, why not initiate them into the ancient craft of French knitting? Here Christine Green explains how Knitting is making a comeback. Julia Roberts, Madonna and Sarah Jessica Parker are all partial to knitting one, purling one - even Russell Crowe has been pictured with knitting needles. But how many people have heard of French knitting?

Exchange rates

    News
  • Thursday, September 23, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Communication with a carer can be the key to overcoming a child's challenging behaviour, say members of the Camden Early Years Intervention Team

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
'This is the DfES goose that has laid the golden egg. No longer will capable seven-year-olds decide they will fail forever, having done badly in the old SATS.' Gwen Evans, deputy general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, in The Times

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