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Security is key

    News
  • Wednesday, November 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The key worker system gives babies and toddlers individual attention to their needs at times they can expect, as Lena Engel explains While daily care routines for babies and young children are crucial to maintaining their health and safety, they are also the best way to help children learn life skills by promoting language, social awareness and self-confidence.

'Bizarre' target set for men in childcare

    News
  • Wednesday, June 20, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Government's target for six per cent of the childcare workforce to be men by 2004 has been described as 'bizarre' by the chief executive of the National Childminding Association. Gill Haynes made her comment during an NCMA conference in London last week called 'Diversity: Making the difference'. She said, 'If we're going to reach the six per cent target of men in childcare by 2004 - how bizarre this is as a concept - we have to go back to the issue of pay and conditions.'

Would you hire this nanny?

    News
  • Wednesday, October 27, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Not quite the nanny from hell, but the nanny agencies from hell were exposed this month by the consumer protection magazine Which? when it sent one of its researchers to approach 20 agencies, posing as a nanny. Rosie Fletcher (pictured) told the agencies that she had no qualifications and that her only childcare experience had been as an occasional babysitter. She said, 'I was surprised that a quarter of the agencies were prepared to accept me, given that I had no qualifications and so little experience.'

Striding out

    News
  • Wednesday, March 22, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Babies and young children need time and space to gain control over their bodies and practise physical skills, says Jennie Lindon The first three years of human life are impressive. If all goes well, our babies - who start as physically helpless newborns - are transformed month by month into people who support their own weight and start to move independently. Even the most cautious toddlers persevere, despite tumbles and tearful frustrations, to become active two- and nearly three-year-olds.

Trained for tourism

    News
  • Wednesday, October 27, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Another ambitious enterprise is a course being developed for childcarers working in tourism, such as ski nannies. Chiltern College is joining forces with Nannies Abroad to create the Certificate of Childcare in Travel and Tourism. Kate Beith, head of the college, said it would be taught over a minimum of 40 hours and would be 'delivered by experienced childcare trainers in an interesting balance of lectures, workshops and active learning'. Ashanti Dickson, managing director of Nannies Abroad, said she became aware through running her other business Snowkidz of a severe lack of training in the travel industry. The course could be tailored for the needs of a particular tour operator, she said, but students who had completed it might enjoy 'better pay and prospects when they return to the UK'. For information ring her on 01962 881 188.

Cool in a crisis?

    News
  • Wednesday, January 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
When you're on duty and emergency strikes, do you flap, or sail through it? Test your mettle with this quiz by Jan Hurst and Sue Hubberstey Are you unflappable whatever happens, or is your nickname 'nervy nanny'? You may be up to speed with first aid procedures, but what about all the other contingencies that could come your way while you're just doing your job? The real-life scenarios below have all happened to nannies while caring for children. Imagine you were there, and answer honestly how you would cope.

Birthrates in England and Wales reached a ten-year high in 2004

    News
  • Wednesday, May 18, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Birthrates in England and Wales reached a ten-year high in 2004, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics last week. There were 639,721 live births registered in England and Wales in 2004 - an increase of 2.9 per cent on 2003, when there were 621,469.

An essential guide to ... the integrated review

    Features
  • Monday, September 7, 2015
    • | Nursery World
The new review, bringing together two separate assessments from early years and health, is being rolled out this month. Charlotte Goddard provides an overview of what practitioners need to know.

Sector pays tribute as Hodge moves on

    News
  • Wednesday, May 18, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Children's minister Margaret Hodge was replaced by former immigration minister Beverley Hughes in Tony Blair's controversial cabinet reshuffle last week. The news, announced on 9 May after Nursery World went to press, sees Ms Hughes returning to Government after resigning as immigration minister in April 2004 for misleading the public over her knowledge of lax visa controls on East European immigrants.

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