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NDNA launches workforce survey

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  • Wednesday, January 10, 2018
    • | Nursery World
The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) wants to hear from childcare owners and managers about the challenges they are facing with recruitment and retention of staff.

A parent's guide to Child Trust Fund vouchers

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  • Wednesday, December 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Paying the day-to-day bills can be enough of a struggle for many families without thinking about saving for their children's future, which is why ministers have introduced the Child Trust Fund scheme. Who will provide the CTF accounts?

Stop these colours

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  • Wednesday, December 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
I feel that the green 'full stop' NSPCC logo is very misleading to young children. I am a pre-school supervisor trying to teach the children in my care that red means stop and green means go. This is a universal code in all aspects of safety. How then, can the NSPCC send mixed messages to children by stating that green is stop?

A big enough change for now

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  • Wednesday, December 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A big enough change for now By Sue Owen, director of the Early Childhood Unit at the National Children's Bureau

On target?

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  • Wednesday, December 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
How will the National Occupational Standards review affect the qualifications of early years practitioners? Karen Faux looks at how the review has identified changing structures and job roles within the sector and why its recommendations will bring changes to NVQs and SVQs over the next year The review of the national occupational standards is all about raising standards - both in terms of basic training and the potential for experienced practitioners to move onwards and up in their profession.

Nursery owner up for business prize

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  • Wednesday, September 18, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A Yorkshire nursery owner and manager is in the running for a 20,000 prize in a competition to honour the UK's best new businesses, organised by the HSBC bank. Sally Minns, who set up the Old School House Children's Nursery in Sancton in autumn 2000, is one of ten finalists in the HSBC Start-up Stars Awards, which invite applications from UK businesses that have been trading for less than two years and can demonstrate that they have the approprate management skills and ideas for success.

The Scottish Executive to invest 40m

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  • Wednesday, September 18, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The Scottish Executive will invest 40m over the next three years in integrated children's services, plus an additional Pounds 110m for early years intervention, finance minister Andy Kerr said last week. This includes an integrated package of support from local authorities, voluntary organisations and health services to at least 15,000 vulnerable children under five; increased resources for Sure Start Scotland; and resources for outreach services, family centres, nurseries, playgroups, childminding and parent support. The Executive also intends to spend 1.15bn on building and refurbishing schools and additional resources to tackle behaviour issues and improve the nutritional value of school meals.

Analysis: Untangling the funding

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  • Tuesday, October 20, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Up to 1.1bn of Government money earmarked for three- and four-year-olds has not been spent on the free entitlement, a new report claims. Catherine Gaunt tries to track down the missing millions.

The Jolly Postman

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  • Wednesday, December 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - The Jolly Postman took time off from his busy rounds to collect the children's letters for Santa and kick off the festive season at East Prescot Road Nursery School in Liverpool. The children had decided that Janet and Allan Ahlberg's creation was their favourite book character. The fun continues on 14 December when the whole nursery pays a visit to Father Christmas in nearby Croxteth Park. Photo Chris Thomond

Be prepared

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  • Wednesday, November 28, 2001
    • | Nursery World
There's no need for providers to fear inspections under the new national daycare standards. Jean Evans offers reassurance Many early years practitioners are worried about whether they are meeting the new national standards for their type of childcare and how these affect inspections. To face these changes with confidence, it is important to feel prepared before the letter announcing your inspection arrives.

Networks improve quality

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  • Wednesday, December 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The valued support of childminding networks is highlighted in a study published this week. Interim findings of joint research carried out by the National Childminding Association and the National Children's Bureau (NCB), and funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Trust, which looked at 50 of the NCMA's Children Come First childminding networks across England and Wales, found they were vital to childminders' practice.

Childcare 'needs men to raise pay'

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  • Wednesday, September 18, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Childcare will continue to be a low-status and low-pay profession as long as few men work in it, the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) said last week. The EOC made its comments after its general secretary, Julie Mellor, addressed the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool, telling delegates that the pay gap between men and women in Britain would not close until society placed greater value on the work women did. She said, 'Equal pay law as it stands does not work for many low-paid women. If they only work with other women, then they do not have the opportunity to compare their pay with a man's pay - which is what the law requires.'

Heads threaten to boycott phonics reading check

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  • Tuesday, May 8, 2012
    • | Nursery World
Head teachers have threatened to put an end to the phonics reading check for all six-year-olds, if it is seen to be politically motivated and used as a weapon to attack teachers.

Hungry dogs

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  • Wednesday, December 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Yvonne Ellis, head of Amersham Children's Centre in Lewisham, spoke to Judith Stevens. Photograph from 'Focus on Planning - effective planning and assessment in the foundation stage' available from LEARN (020 8695 9806) Give a dog a bone for a challenging way to make your maths area more inviting

Flip Flop Fred, 6.99

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  • Monday, May 14, 2012
    • | Nursery World
Fred the turtle is the latest addition to Lamaze's range of toys ideal for peek-a-boo play with the very young.

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