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The first lesson of business

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  • Wednesday, May 23, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Helen Kewley of Nice Nannies Now in Huntingdon recalls learning something the hard way. 'I shall never forget the very first nanny I ever recruited. My agency had just opened. I was optimistic, confident and rather naive. I had placed ads in local papers and the first person to reply was Caroline (not her real name). On the phone she sounded very promising. At the interview she shone. Although she was not qualified, she had a sheaf of references showing lots of experience. Her eye contact was good, and she was smiling and enthusiastic. If she had a problem, she said, it was that she found it hard to say "no" and ended up doing more than she should. Her current job was not working out well, as the parents were going through an acrimonious divorce. The other local agency that had got her the job was not being supportive.

Cut it out

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  • Wednesday, May 23, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Your boss may cut corners in your employment to save money - but it only creates pitfalls, says Stephen Vahrman When parents employ you as a nanny there are two practical issues they will immediately have to face. The first is the cost of your employment - which comes out of their own pocket, and which is considerably greater than the net (take-home) pay they may have agreed with you at your interview. There is no doubt that this can be a strain on many parents' personal finances. The second issue is the responsibility they face as an employer to administer a PAYE scheme on your behalf and pay tax and National Insurance (NI) contributions to the Inland Revenue, as well as providing you with regular payslips showing these deductions and various other forms, such as a P45 when you leave and your P60 annual summary of earnings.

Hop Along

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  • Monday, May 14, 2018
    • | Nursery World
While children at Springfield Nursery in Barnstaple were out investigating their bug hotel they found a small frog.

Hands and voices

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  • Friday, September 20, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Nurseries across the country are being invited to join in a world record attempt for the most people signing and singing on the same day.

Creches win star ratings

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  • Wednesday, January 24, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The mobile creche company Nipperbout is celebrating gaining its third outstanding rating from Ofsted, after campaigning for more flexibility in inspection arrangements for mobile childcare facilities. Owners Janthea and Steve Bridgen, with the help of their local MP John Bercow, successfully lobbied the Government and the DfES for a more flexible approach to registration and inspection criteria to take into account the nature of mobile childcare services.

Water play: rain

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  • Wednesday, January 24, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Young children love to play outside and for many, this is an important place for learning. In order to benefit fully from the outdoors, children need long periods of time outside every day all through the year. Jan White takes a month-by-month look at how you can make the most of your outdoor provision. This month: how you can turn rain into a valued resource as part of your provision for year-round water play.

Jo Louttit

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  • Wednesday, January 24, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Name: Jo Louttit Age: 38 Job title: Team leader for nursery at Butlins Location: Bognor Regis, Sussex Duties

Assembly debate on children's rights

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  • Wednesday, July 4, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The appointment of a children's commissioner to represent Northern Ireland's 500,000 children and young people came a step closer following a lengthy debate in the country's Assembly last week. The debate was opened by Democratic Unionist Party member Edwin Poots, who is chair of the committee for the children's commissioner. He described the initial announcement in January of the intention to appoint a commissioner as 'a step towards ensuring that our children can grow up in a society, safe from exploitation and abuse, where their rights are protected and where their needs are met'.

Excellence in Childcare awards ceremony

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  • Wednesday, July 4, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Kellie-Ann Fitzgerald (centre) was named Playworker of the Year at the Kids' Clubs Network's annual Excellence in Childcare awards ceremony in London last week. She received her award from Linda Robson, star of the BBC comedy series 'Birds of a Feather', and Stuart Hayward of sponsors JMC, the holiday operators. Kellie-Ann, who runs the Cuddles Eager Beavers out-of-school club in the London borough of Walthamstow, was described by the parent who nominated her as a 'fine ambassador for childcare services', gifted with 'considerable kindness and generosity of spirit'. The Latchkey Project at Balham Family Centre in London won the award for Best Out-of-School Club, praised for offering a caring, sharing environment and a timetable packed with well-thought-out activities, down to a Hallowe'en sleepover for which staff give up their weekend. Rollercoasters Playcentre in Camden, London, which offers a service for children with disabilities and complex needs, won the Most Creative Activity Programme award for its art exhibition 'A Sense of Movement', showcasing the children's work. The Prima Childcarer of the Year was Samantha Morris, a classroom support worker at Ammansford Infants School in Carmarthenshire.

Reader offer

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  • Wednesday, January 24, 2007
    • | Nursery World
We have five copies of Let's Pretend Maths by Helen Williams (BEAM Education, 29.50, tel: 01242 267 945, www.beam.co.uk) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or envelope, marked 'Let's Pretend Maths', to the address on page 3. Winners will be the first five names drawn on 8 February 2007.

'Grill candidates about childcare'

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  • Wednesday, May 16, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Childcare providers and parents are being urged by a national childcare charity to ask all general election candidates in their area where they stand on childcare issues. The Daycare Trust has highlighted five key questions to ask candidates during National Childcare Week (20 to 27 May). The questions are:

Sssss-Sensory Visit

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  • Monday, April 2, 2018
    • | Nursery World
The Zoo Lab dropped into Windmill Hill Day Nursery in Swindon to showcase their creepy-crawly insects and minibeasts.

'Hang on to your ideals, partners'

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  • Wednesday, May 16, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The early years sector needs to hold on to its ideals despite worries about quality, sustainability and the complexity of funding streams, delegates at the annual general meeting of the Association of Advisors for the Under-Eights and their Families were told last week. The comments were made by Colette Kelleher, former director of the Daycare Trust who is now a member of the DfEE's advisory team on early years. She said Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships need to show they have secured resources for the 'retained functions' of providing support and advice, which will become their responsibility in September after Ofsted takes over the regulation of early years and childcare from local councils.

NVQ is failing young people

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
By Pat Field, proprietor of the Rosie Lea Montessori Nursery in Leeds In the feature 'Pressure points' (12 April) Richard Dorrance, chief executive of CACHE, says that he does not accept that there were major variations in the standards of NVQs. Nor does he accept that the language of the NVQ system and the complex cross-referencing system poses problems for many candidates either - even though both these issues have recently been raised as areas for concern in a report produced by the Training Standards Council. However, the truth is that this system has been failing its younger candidates for years, because there is nothing 'vocational' about the way this qualification is marketed. The NVQ system is no longer aimed at, or made easily affordable to, the target group it was supposedly designed for - the unqualified staff already working in childcare, with years of experience and skills.

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