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National postcard campaign

    News
  • Wednesday, September 24, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A national postcard campaign calling on the Government to make high-quality, affordable childcare accessible to all families was launched last week by the Daycare Trust. The campaign stems from the Childcare Challenge project which aims to increase childcare opportunities for families living in poverty. The postcards read, 'To make life better for me and my family, I want a children's centre near my home; to know my child is safe and happy; childcare that I can afford; and employers to be flexible.' The postcards are available from the Daycare Trust on 020 7840 3350 or by e-mailing info@daycaretrust.org.uk or visiting the website at www.daycaretrust.org.uk.

Project guide

    News
  • Wednesday, July 17, 2002
    • | Nursery World
This project recognises that: * Settings should be constantly resourced and organised in such a way as to offer learning opportunities across all areas of the Foundation Stage curriculum.

Schools to stay 1bn in the red, says NUT

    News
  • Wednesday, September 24, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Primary and secondary schools in England are facing a budget shortfall of at least 1bn over the next three years, the National Union of Teachers warned last week. The warning followed the publication of a school budgets study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers for the NUT that found a combination of increases in teachers' pay and in national insurance and pensions contributions, the cost of support staff and the implementation of the teacher workload agreement could push England's schools 1bn in the red. This is despite the Government's pledge of an additional 800m in funding - 400m a year over the next two years.

'Do it in Denim'

    News
  • Wednesday, September 24, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Early years settings and schools are being urged to 'Do it in Denim' to raise funds for sick children in this year's Jeans for Genes Day on 3 October. The day will see children and adults nationwide wear jeans and donate 1 each to the campaign that is led by Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. To register for a free fundraising pack, use the Jeans for Genes freephone hotline on 0800 980 4800 or visit its website www. jeansforgenes.com. More than 15m has been raised since the campaign began in 1996.

Recruitment: Part 2 - Which job?

    Features
  • Monday, June 25, 2018
    • | Nursery World
As part of a series unpicking the recruitment crisis and giving strategies to combat it, Charlotte Goddard explores ways that settings can sell themselves, and asks why candidates pick one job over another

Fight the poverty of modern values

    News
  • Wednesday, September 24, 2003
    • | Nursery World
I read with interest two news stories on the same page of the 4 September edition of Nursery World. In the first story, 'Benefits costed in daycare for all', Rosemary Murphy, chief executive of the National Day Nurseries Association, is quoted as saying that Government policy 'has been about getting people back to work as a means of eradicating child poverty'. The second story, 'School readiness gap is debated' quotes Ofsted chief inspector David Bell as saying that 'children's verbal skills are lacking' and that parents need to be encouraged to 'talk to their children and give them a whole range of stimulating things to do'.

News Analysis: Media watch

    News
  • Friday, August 17, 2012
    • | Nursery World
Toddlers aged two to three years old who snore persistently are more likely to have behavioural problems, according to research published online in US journal Pediatrics.

How far can I go?

    News
  • Tuesday, September 23, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The key to setting effective rules and limitations for young children is knowing what you can expect them to be able to follow most of the time, writes Jennie Lindon

Government's childcare reforms 'put children at risk'

    News
  • Wednesday, March 13, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Reforms to increase ratios to allow nursery staff and childminder to look after more children are at odds with Government policy to foster close one-to-one bonds with children, an early years expert will say today.

TV and radio

    News
  • Wednesday, September 24, 2003
    • | Nursery World
26 September Conversations with Rowan Williams - Playing God (Channel Four, 7.30 to 8pm)

The work of early years professionals

    News
  • Wednesday, June 19, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The work of early years professionals was recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours last weekend. Among those to receive MBEs are Josephine Aldard, learning support assistant at St Martin's Church of England Infants School in Salisbury, Wiltshire, for services to education; Belinda Badcock, for services to childminding in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey; Ruby Burns, for services to pre-school education at Cardonald College, Glasgow; Williamina Cumming, manager of the Rocking Horse Nursery at the University of Aberdeen, for services to nursery care; Pamela Jay, nursery nurse at Victoria Special School in Birmingham, for services to special needs children; Patricia MacMaster, chair of Somerset Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership, for services to early years education; Anne Sterry, nursery nurse at Usk Primary School, for services to children with special educational needs; and Brenda Tumber, pre-school adviser at Kent Local Education Authority, for services to early education and special educational needs.

Two by two

    News
  • Tuesday, September 23, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Nursery staff and children alike have a lot to learn from the experience of working in pairs. Kate Whelan describes the practice and observations developed in her setting

Thirty-nine neighbourhood nurseries will be created with a further 6m of lottery cash from the New Opportunities Fund

    News
  • Wednesday, September 17, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Thirty-nine neighbourhood nurseries will be created with a further 6m of lottery cash from the New Opportunities Fund. London, the south-west and north-east have each been awarded more than Pounds 1m. In Oxford the Slade Nursery School is to have an additional 45 places following a 221,334 award to Oxfordshire County Council. The nursery will eventually have a large outdoor play area and increased family support services for the community. Marjorie Evans, chair of the local Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership, said, 'A freestanding nursery school as an integrated centre for foundation education, care for nought- to five-year-old children and family support has been on the EYDCP, LEA and school's agenda for five years.'

Children's service revamp proposed

    News
  • Wednesday, September 17, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Early years professionals in England will be expected to work more closely with parents to give them a better understanding of their children's development, under proposals contained in last week's Green Paper, Every child matters. As well as announcing the Government's plan for England to have an independent children's commissioner, the Green Paper sets out its framework for services covering all children and young people from birth to the age of 19 living in England. Key proposals include all children being given a number so they can be tracked from birth, resulting in the 'sweeping away'

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