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Watchdog explains its investigations

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  • Wednesday, September 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
This week Ofsted publishes its annual early years report. Protection through Regulation focuses on what action Ofsted takes when childcarers fail to provide the standard of care that children deserve. It is the first time Ofsted has published a report on this area of our work, so it will be of interest to early years and childcare providers, professionals working in the sector, and parents.

List identifies workers banned from childcare

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  • Wednesday, January 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Childcare employers and voluntary organisations in Scotland can now check job applicants' suitability to work with children under the Protection of Children (Scotland) Act 2003 which came into force on 10 Janaury. The Disqualified from Working with Children List aims to prevent people who have harmed children, or exposed them to harm, from working with children in either paid or voluntary positions.

Carers urged to ask about child injuries

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  • Wednesday, July 10, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Childcarers have been warned to watch more carefully for signs that babies and infants may have been abused or neglected by their parents. The call was made by Richard Green, NSPCC senior consultant and the co-author of a report on infant protection published earlier this week. The NSPCC report, What Really Happened?, was launched on Monday in Denver, Colorado, at an international conference on child abuse and neglect.

A review of child and family policy developments in the UK

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  • Wednesday, June 1, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A review of child and family policy developments in the UK has been published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The child and family policy divide: tensions, convergence and rights by Clem Henricson and Andrew Bainham can be downloaded from www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop.

Funding axe threatens children's services

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  • Wednesday, January 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The withdrawal of the Children's Fund in Northern Ireland in 2006 will jeopardise more than a hundred programmes aimed at vulnerable children, leading children's charities warned last week. Barnardo's Northern Ireland has said it is set to lose almost 1m when the funding ends.

Study days

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  • Wednesday, January 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Launched last year, the NVQ for teaching assistants lays down a specific role and recognises how much support these practitioners now supply in the classroom. The qualification spans four key support aspects of a classroom assistant's work, covering the pupil, teacher, curriculum and school. Importantly, it provides a career structure, giving employers a clear picture of the skills a teaching assistant possesses.

Resources

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  • Wednesday, January 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
* Aurora jewels (6.85) - 500 jewels and beads in assorted shapes, sizes and colours * Rainbow beads (1.10)

Time and space

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  • Wednesday, September 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Finding the time and space for complementary indoor and outdoor learning requires careful planning Planning for complementary indoor and outdoor learning requires practitioners to consider how they will manage both time and space. They may need to rethink the daily routine and review how space is being used.

Case study: Sue and Fay

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  • Wednesday, January 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Sue Kowalski's daughter Fay first started working at her mother's Sunbeams Day Nursery in Plymouth as a school student on a work placement more than six years ago. She later joined the staff as a nursery assistant and has worked her way up to nursery co-ordinator at number three in the management team, which also includes her mother and the nursery's manager.

Childminders go online with smartphones

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  • Monday, August 8, 2011
    • | Nursery World
The number of childminders accessing the internet via their mobile phone has quadrupled in the past year, according to the National Childminding Association's membership survey.

Ask the expert

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  • Wednesday, January 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Your legal questions answered by Christine Betts, senior lawyer, schools and childcare team, Veale Wasbrough Lawyers Q I run a small nursery, taking children from the age of two. We have a policy of accepting only children who are potty trained, although we can, of course, deal with the occasional 'accident'. A parent now wants me to accept her three-year-old whose disability means that he is still in nappies. I would like to welcome this child and believe that we can provide appropriate facilities for him, but will I be creating a precedent? Another parent wants me to accept her disabled child who is hyperactive and has a tendency to knock over smaller children. Can I refuse this application?

Listen and learn

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  • Wednesday, September 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
See how you can stimulate your practice and keep up with developments in the sector with a sample of some of the seminars on offer. Liz Fox reports Mathematics in the Foundation Stage: building confidence, not confusion!

Get the message

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  • Wednesday, June 28, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Practitioners are faced with balancing the concerns raised over the EYFS with using it in the best interests of children. Simon Vevers reports A'nappy curriculum', gross interference in the rights of parents to bring up their children, another example of the sinister workings of the nanny state. Perhaps predictably, the publication of The Early Years Foundation Stage: Consultation on a single quality framework for services to children from birth to five attracted a rash of lurid and misleading headlines.

Early Years and Primary Teaching Exhibition Preview

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  • Wednesday, September 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The Early Years and Primary Teaching Exhibition at the Business Design Centre in London promises to be a spectacular event for everyone working in nursery and primary education. The exhibition has reached its tenth anniversary, and to celebrate this milestone the London show will be the biggest and busiest yet. With more than 170 leading educational suppliers under one roof it is easy for visitors to gain inspirational ideas, stock up on resources, check out the latest innovations and keep up to date with recent developments in this rapidly changing sector.

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