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Win a book on transitions

    News
  • Tuesday, May 25, 2010
    • | Nursery World
With a three-part series on transitions beginning in this week's Nursery World, five readers have a chance to win a free copy of Julie Fisher's new book, Moving On to Key Stage 1, published by the Open University Press at 17.99.

Government scraps Child Poverty Act

    News
  • Thursday, July 2, 2015
    • | Nursery World
The existing measures and targets in the Child Poverty Act will be replaced with a new duty to report on worklessness and educational attainment.

Four years or five?

    News
  • Wednesday, January 11, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I'm always devastated when our four-year-olds leave our homely nursery, with child-friendly chairs, tables and toilets and fantastic outdoor play facilities, to be put into uniform and sent to 'big school'. Most schools have large class sizes with a qualified teacher and maybe one or two teaching assistants, but it is not the same as the nursery ratios.

Including allergies

    News
  • Wednesday, January 11, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I cried as I read 'A food limit too far' (Letters, 22 December) because it was condescending and unsympathetic to the plight of children with food allergies. I am a nursery practitioner and the mother of a child with a life-threatening egg allergy. In my world, the simplest things must be scrutinised to keep my child safe. I'm glad that my child's pre-school had more sympathy towards the problems of allergies and coped better than Marcella Cunningham's nursery.

Child tax credits streamlined

    News
  • Wednesday, December 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Government proposals to reform the Working Families Tax Credit, which includes the childcare tax credit that helps parents on low incomes with childcare costs, were revealed last week. Paymaster General Dawn Primarolo published a Bill to simplify and streamline the current range of tax credits by replacing them with just two new tax credits, in the wake of chancellor Gordon Brown's pre-Budget report earlier in the week.

People and places. A monthly round-up

    News
  • Wednesday, January 4, 2006
    • | Nursery World
* Rosemary Archer has been named the first director of children's services at Leeds City Council. Ms Archer, currently the council's head of social services, will champion the needs of children, families and carers. She will take up the new post on 1 March.

How do you moo!

    Other
  • Friday, September 20, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Children at Bank Hall Kindergarten in Leyland have been chatting to the cows.

Fears for Sure Start allayed by Blunkett

    News
  • Wednesday, June 8, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The services that local Sure Start programmes offer must not be 'diluted' as children's centres are rolled out across the country, David Blunkett, minister for work and pensions, reminded parents and early years and childcare workers last week.

Breakfast is eaten by 94 per cent of under-fives every day

    News
  • Wednesday, June 8, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Breakfast is eaten by 94 per cent of under-fives every day, and half eat it at nursery at least once a week, a National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) survey of 1,000 parents has found. The favourite breakfast foods were cereal (68 per cent), toast (19 per cent) and fruit (13 per cent). Day nurseries will hold Big Breakfast events this month to support NDNA's healthy eating campaign and celebrate National Sure Start Month.

Young viewers

    News
  • Wednesday, December 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Exposure to television is increasing among very young children. Annette Rawstrone hears a consensus from experts about its effects on early development Getting 'square eyes' from watching too much television may just be a prospect that we tease childen with, but excessive viewing can indeed lead to serious developmental problems.

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