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Correction

    News
  • Tuesday, May 4, 2010
    • | Nursery World
'Contented Little Baby' author Gina Ford has asked us to clarify that she does not advocate controlled crying as a way of getting babies to sleep, as we reported in 'Leach Condemns Controlled Crying' (News, 29 April). Ms Ford recommends that parents allow 'crying down' for up to ten minutes for babies who are so over-tired that they cannot settle themselves to sleep.

Debating degrees

    News
  • Wednesday, March 3, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A graduate workforce is far from an illusion in many of the European countries that are our neighbours. Many, including Sweden and Denmark, already have a mainly graduate workforce. In these countries working with children is indeed seen to need 'skills, love and enthusiasm', but it is recognised that these qualities should be offered at a graduate level and that this will also entail paying such workers an appropriate salary. There is no contradiction between having a degree and having vocational skills. We have graduate nurses, teachers and lawyers. Vocational skills can be part of a degree course. In this country we already have people with Early Childhood Studies degrees and many more who are achieving the new foundation degrees in early years.

Sure Start starts before birth

    News
  • Wednesday, February 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Up to 60m is being injected by the Government into the Sure Start programme to extend it to cover pregnant women and their partners, as well as families with children under four, public health minister Yvette Cooper said last week. At present Sure Start programmes offer support and advice to families with children aged under three in the most disadvantaged areas of the country. They can now apply for funds to provide services during pregnancy, with the aim of tackling problems such as poor nutrition, low infant birthweight, smoking and access to benefits.

Early years beacon awards

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  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Four local authorities have been designated beacons of best practice for their groundbreaking work within the early years and childcare sector. The councils - Leeds, Somerset, and the London boroughs of Camden and Newham - have been awarded Beacon Council status by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minster and the Improvement and Development Agency.

Avoidable injuries are biggest killer of the under-14s

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  • Wednesday, February 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Preventable injuries are the biggest killer of children aged one to 14 in all industrialised countries, according to the first league tables to be compiled on the subject. The data is in the Unicef Innocenti report card document, A league table of child deaths by injury in rich nations, published last week. The report found that each year more than 20,000 children in the world's wealthiest nations die from injuries.

Into action

    News
  • Wednesday, February 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Physical activity for children is high on the official agenda, as Joyce Reid reports, while our cut-out-photovopy guide will help you explain the reasons why to parents Many children today, it is widely recognised, do not get as mnuch physical excercise as they need.

Study days

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  • Wednesday, February 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Qualification PGCE (Primary education: multilingual nurseries and classrooms).

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