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Trained workforce is a spending goal

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  • Wednesday, October 6, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A commitment to raising the number of early years and childcare workers who hold qualifications is among the Scottish Executive's spending plans for the next three years, presented to the Scottish Parliament last week. The budget report for 2005-2008 states a commitment to improving the skills and qualifications of the childcare workforce by increasing the proportion of early years, childcare and support staff meeting qualification requirements from 66 per cent in September 2003 to 85 per cent by January 2009.

Spread the word

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  • Wednesday, September 29, 2004
    • | Nursery World
With fierce competition in the sector, settings need to publicise their business. Rosie Pressland shows how to aim sky-high The childcare sector has never known such growth, and with that unprecedented growth has come greater competition. Now more than ever, settings need to sharpen up their marking techniques if they are to keep ahead of the competition.

Community spirit flowed in Lewisham, London

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  • Wednesday, July 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Community spirit flowed in Lewisham, London, when more than 1,000 local people took part in the fourth annual Quaggy Carnival on 26 June. The carnival started with a colourful parade through the streets that finished at Morden Mount Primary School. Revellers enjoyed live music and dance, face painting, Indian head massage and DJ youth projects. The event was organised by the Quaggy Development Trust, a local regeneration organisation, with support from Sure Start West Greenwich.

Play packs made for crisis farm children

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A Devon play association has come up with a pack chockfull of activity ideas, games and resources for children confined to farms isolated by the foot and mouth crisis. Jackie Colby, play development worker for the Teignbridge Play Network, which covers south Devon and parts of Dartmoor, said that the association decided to produce the pack at its monthly meeting. Those present started talking about the various out-of-school clubs and playschemes in the area which were currently not viable because children were unable to attend them under restrictions imposed because of the foot and mouth epidemic.

In brief...The Welsh Assembly is at

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Welsh Assembly is at the cutting edge of children's policies for the UK, the Welsh minister for children, Jane Hutt, told a meeting of the Rhondda Cynon Taff's Sure Start scheme. She told delegates that a Cabinet sub-committee for children and young people in Wales had met for the first time and that it would drive forward the Assembly's agenda for children, which includes appointing Peter Clarke as children's commissioner. 'We are living at a very exciting time for children's services in Wales,' said Ms Hutt.

Ongoing monitoring and research

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  • Wednesday, October 6, 2004
    • | Nursery World
As the Kate Greenaway Nursery School has expanded, we have aimed for every new initiative to be supported by evidence of best practice from elsewhere and shaped by the views of local families. Although it seems daunting at first to have to keep yet more evidence and even more records, planning a simple and elegant system in advance helps a great deal in the long run. The first information that Kate Greenaway needed was evidence about the effectiveness of what it was already doing. In September 2003, when I took up my post, the nursery had just emerged from a difficult period. Through meeting with other colleagues, I have learned that nursery schools can be very vulnerable. Difficulties in recruiting a headteacher, falling birthrates, and the lack of understanding that many local authorities show towards nursery education can all put a nursery school in a shaky position.

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