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Private pay peanuts

    News
  • Wednesday, October 4, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Those in the private nursery sector are among the lowest paid and least respected employees in the UK. I am qualified to degree level and earn 5.10 an hour. I will soon retrain to teach in the 16-plus sector because the pay is better and I might get treated like the professional that I am. When will the sector realise that if you want high-quality provision and committed staff, you have to treat them like professionals and not glorified char ladies?

A jigsaw-design ribbon to be worn to promote Autism Awareness Year 2002

    News
  • Wednesday, January 16, 2002
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - A jigsaw-design ribbon to be worn to promote Autism Awareness Year 2002 was launched last week by Labour MP Linda Perham. It was a parent in her consituency with a five-year-old autistic son who founded the first Autism Awareness Year, jointly run by the Disabilities Trust and the British Institute for Brain Injured Children. During a Commons debate, health secretary Yvette Cooper said, 'It is important that we acknowledge that autism is a complex condition that affects not only the individuals but their families, parents, carers, teachers and schoolmates. It is not a simple problem with simple solutions.'

Out-of-school care shortage on agenda

    News
  • Wednesday, January 16, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The lack of out-of-school care for ten-to 14-year-olds has been thrust into the spotlight with the publication of a briefing paper from a leading childcare charity. The Daycare Trust's paper, Older and Bolder, published last week, follows in the wake of a Kids' Clubs Network conference last month that highlighted the vacuum in provision for older children (News, 13 December).

Paper chase

    News
  • Wednesday, October 4, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Popular with parents and their employers, vouchers are costing nurseries a lot of time and money, says Mary Evans Support for employer-assisted childcare is a key plank in the Government's raft of family friendly policies aimed at encouraging parents into work and enabling employers to retain high-calibre staff.

Going public

    News
  • Wednesday, January 26, 2000
    • | Nursery World
Like it or not, the nursery business is competitive, says Mary Evans , and you must sell your services

City's nurseries 'under threat of closure'

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Edinburgh City Council is considering closing its nurseries in favour of integrated early years centres as part of a city-wide education review, a campaigning parent has told Nursery World. Natasha Kirby, who has been looking into allegations that state-run nurseries are under threat, said the council will announce the proposed closures by the end of June. Her daughter attends Grassmarket Nursery School, which offers specialist services.

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