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Baby time

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  • Wednesday, March 1, 2006
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - South Korean student Yeono Hur reads to one-year-old Theo Dean at Upperthorpe Library's 'Baby Time' session in Sheffield. Yeono and two other students, Hyeyoung Kim and Jihyeon Kang, won a Seoul University competition with their project on Sheffield Bookstart. The university funded their visit to Britain so they could complete a report on the work of Sheffield libraries. Their trip included visits to several local libraries where they joined in singalongs, read with children and found out more about Bookstart and early years work. Photo Roger Moody/Guzelian

Childcare staff score lower on awareness of Every Child Matters

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  • Wednesday, March 1, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Childcare staff score lower on awareness of Every Child Matters than local government workers, at 69 per cent and 90 per cent respectively, according to a survey published by the DfES last week. Children's Workforce Research found that childcare workers had the least awareness of Every Child Matters among professionals working across 26 job types in health, schools, youth justice, residential care and childcare. A total of 600 childcare practitioners working in private, maintained and voluntary sector settings and childminding were involved in the survey. Download the report at www.dfes.gov.uk.

Editor's view

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  • Wednesday, February 28, 2001
    • | Nursery World
As the days get longer and brighter, and spring is in the air, you could well start to notice that your setting is in need of sprucing up. Perhaps your paintwork is peeling, your carpet is wearing thin, and your equipment is looking old or damaged. Nursery World will come to the rescue of one lucky nursery or pre-school, with our brilliant competition to win a complete makeover including equipment worth over 5,000. Turn to page 7 to find out how you can enter by collecting six tokens from 15 March to 19 April. The prize will include resources for the book corner, baby room, sand and water corner, and role play corner from Galt Educational, a bumper pack of Lego, plus a new carpet from Abingdon, and a fresh coat of paint for your walls.

Private providers fear sidelining

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Private providers remain apprehensive about their future role in Government initiatives despite ministerial reassurances that they will have a part to play. Speaking at a conference last week about the future of the private sector, minister for children Margaret Hodge spelled out the opportunities that children's centres and extended schools could offer private providers. But delegates, particularly those involved in the Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative, expressed fears that they will be sidelined or ignored.

Sleep tight

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  • Wednesday, March 1, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Children will only have a successful day at nursery if they have a proper sleep at night. Rosalyn Spencer explains how Every day in our nurseries and schools we have to cope with children who are sleepy, cannot concentrate, have problems relating to others, or are disobedient, hyperactive or aggressive. Sleep deprivation is thought to be one of the main reasons.

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