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Scheme woos Scottish men

    News
  • Wednesday, February 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
An Edinburgh scheme to encourage more men into childcare through free training has proved a success and is set to expand across Scotland. The Men in Childcare scheme was launched at three Edinburgh colleges, Telford, Stevenson and Jewel and Esk, last year and has increased the number of male childcare students from one or two a year to 85. The initiative was launched after childcare practitioners and Edinburgh City Council became concerned at the lack of male childcarers.

Beginners please

    News
  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Novelty and board books to share with the youngest children offer plenty to talk about and lots of visual details to examine, as reviewer Alison Boyle discovers BABY'S FIRST WORDS. Written by Debbie McKinnon with photographs by Geoff Dann. (Frances Lincoln, 9.99).

Children's charities slam child poverty strategy

    News
  • Thursday, February 27, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Charities have criticised the Government’s new child poverty strategy for lacking ambition, containing no new ideas, and being weak on areas such as affordable housing and the living wage.

Training programme

    News
  • Wednesday, December 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The Bridgwater College Forest School's training programme aims to train those wishing to set up and run Forest Schools anywhere in the country. We offer: Forest school visits - held monthly, involve a brief presentation and visit to the woodland. Adult taster days - an opportunity to spend a day in the woodland finding out what Forest School is really like and experiencing the same kind of personal development that the children experience.

Demands but no recognition

    News
  • Wednesday, December 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
By Gill Scrivenor, a nursery manager in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Historically childcare has been the responsibility of women and seen as an extension of motherhood. It is regarded as an 'easy' job. The common perception is that anyone working with children is probably sitting chatting while the children play. However, the demand for women in the workforce over recent years has made childcare essential. The Government has sunk a lot of money into this sector, but it has never addressed the pay or career structure of the carers. It does not see childcare as a profession, no matter how much it stresses its importance.

Make the grant work

    News
  • Wednesday, November 15, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I have been following readers' letters concerning the nursery education grant and top-up fees with interest. Surely Ross Midgley's suggestions (Special Report, 12 October) for nurseries providing childcare for the full ten hours per day aren't that difficult to understand and implement? We have operated the system he suggests since we opened seven years ago. It is simple to administer and everyone understands it.

Children from Paintpots Montessori School in London

    News
  • Wednesday, November 24, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Children from Paintpots Montessori School in London staged a live exhibition workshop at the first National Montessori Art Exhibition in the Mall Galleries on 1 November. The children created their own works of art within the gallery and hung them directly on the walls. The exhibition, entitled 'Inside our School', also included the work of hundreds of children from Montessori schools across the UK. Photo Richard Lea Hare

Westholme School in Blackburn, Lancashire

    News
  • Wednesday, November 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A converted bungalow now houses a nursery unit for two- and three-year-olds at the independent Westholme School in Blackburn, Lancashire. It opened last week with five attending children and hopes to accommodate 24 children by the New Year. The nursery has an active room, quiet room, role play room and a 'messy' room, complete with waterplay and a sandpit.

Public we win, Public you lose

    Opinion
  • Friday, March 7, 2014
    • | Nursery World
The Early Years Educator entry criteria are yet another example of a policy that has been rushed out without any attempt at joined up thinking, says Ross Midgley.

Lords debate speech therapy plans

    News
  • Wednesday, November 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The importance of having speech and language professionals working in children's centres was the focus of a debate in the House of Lords last week. The Liberal Democrats' Baroness Walmsley asked schools minister Lord Adonis how many speech and language professionals were in place in children's centres and how many have advanced plans to have them.

Ministerial moves

    News
  • Wednesday, October 17, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Parents may not have heard of the National Childcare Strategy, but their lives are being affected by it. Mary Evans examines how much progress has been made else is in store Further reforms and increased investment are needed if the National Childcare Strategy is to reach its aims of providing accessible, affordable, good-quality childcare to all parents who want it, according to early years organisations. Launched in May 1998 by the year-old Labour Government, the strategy - which covers England only, as powers regulating childcare have passed to the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland assemblies under devolution - has many of its targets fixed to deadlines in 2004. At the halfway mark in its first phase of implementation, the verdict from childcare campaigners is: so far so good, but more needs to be done.

Nursery death 'accidental'

    News
  • Wednesday, November 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The death of a ten-month-old girl who choked on a piece of apple at a nursery was judged accidental last week. Georgia Hollick died in hospital on 19 April of asphyxiation after choking on the apple at Just Learning Nursery in Cambourne, Cambridgeshire (News, 27 April). At an inquest into her daughter's death, Sharon Hollick said that she had expressed concern over the care Georgia was receiving to nursery manager Julie Haynes just days before the tragedy, claiming she had found Georgia sitting on the floor alone eating strawberries.

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