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Prove yourself

    News
  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Can a Quality Assurance scheme make a difference for children and families? Christine Goldsack issues a challenge Many providers will be wondering whether it is worth their while undertaking a Quality Assurance (QA) scheme, particularly if they already have waiting lists and good Ofsted reports.

Our recommended choice

    News
  • Wednesday, October 12, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Early Childhood Education (3rd edition) By Tina Bruce (Hodder Arnold, 0 340 88972 1, 17.99, 020 7873 6000) Reviewed by Marian Whitehead, language and early years consultant

Nursery World Awards 16: Judges - Decision time…

    Other
  • Sunday, September 25, 2016
    • | Nursery World
It was a busy day for our expert panel of judges from across the early years sector as they discussed and debated who deserved to win in each award category. And with a huge number of high-quality entries once again, they had to work very hard. Big thanks to them all!

The Scottish Storytelling Network

    News
  • Wednesday, March 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The Scottish Storytelling Network is holding a national development day on 30 April in Falkirk, with talks and information on training and resources. For details and to book a place, for 15 or 10 with concessions, call 0131 5576 9579 or see www.

Keep it off the record

    News
  • Wednesday, October 12, 2005
    • | Nursery World
I am writing in response to Eleasha Bonsor's letter about keeping records on staff who make bogus complaints to Ofsted (Letters, 22 September). I am in total agreement with this, as my own setting has also been a victim. When Ofsted inspectors came they could find no justification for the complaint, but it will still be included on our record. Ofsted says it can do nothing about this and that it has to record such issues so that parents looking at reports are aware of complaints against a setting, justified or not.

Letters: Letter of the week - Speaking matters

    News
  • Tuesday, April 19, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Our pre-school is currently taking part in our local authority's 'Every Child a Talker' project and I was fortunate to attend a conference and hear Jean Gross, the Government's Communication Champion.

What a night!

    News
  • Wednesday, October 12, 2005
    • | Nursery World
More than 150 guests gathered at the Business Design Centre in north London on Friday 30 September for the very first Nursery World Awards - a glittering black-tie gala event to celebrate excellence in the early years sector. The guests, many of whom had already enjoyed a day at the Early Years and Primary Teaching Exhibition, were treated to a champagne reception. Then it was time for dinner and a nail-biting wait before the award winners were announced.

Sitters work round parents' needs

    News
  • Wednesday, March 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Plans are underway to launch a new sitter service in Angus to provide affordable, flexible home-based childcare. The development follows the success of the first sitter service set up six years ago by One Parent Families Scotland and follows other services established in Aberdeenshire earlier this month, and in North Lanarkshire three years ago.

All on board

    News
  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Partnership working across sectors in Worcestershire has required hard work but has been rewarding, says Alison Hitchins Partnership is now a common word for all those involved in the planning and delivery of services for children and families. From their inception in 1998, Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships were expected to build working relationships with those from the private, voluntary and independent sectors, and with maintained provision.

CfBT acquires Manor Tree to take Top 20 slot

    News
  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The Centre for British Teachers (CfBT), the not-for-profit education and training company, announced on Monday that it had acquired the Manor Tree group of nurseries, a chain with eight settings based in the south-east of England and London. The Manor Tree Group was previously the 17th largest nursery operator in the UK and Ireland, with 806 places (Nursery Chains, summer 2005). Its five standalone nurseries are in West Norwood in London, and Binfield, Iver and Slough in Berkshire. It also has three nursery units attached to independent schools in Berkshire and Surrey.

Autistic children to learn family communication

    News
  • Wednesday, March 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A new therapy is aiming to develop communication skills between pre-school autistic children and their parents. A four-year trial of Pre-School Autism Communication has received 1.3m of funding from the Medical Research Council and will be conducted at the University of Manchester. It will study the effectiveness of a treatment to improve parent/child communication and develop the social and language skills of autistic children aged between two and five before they start school.

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