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Council nurseries to lose their kitchens

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  • Wednesday, May 14, 2008
    • | Nursery World
All but four of Edinburgh's city nurseries are to lose their on-site catering facilities from next month, as part of council cost-cutting measures.

APEL certificate gets go-ahead

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  • Wednesday, September 17, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The new 'fast-track' route that could lead early years practitioners in England to a Level 3 childcare qualification in three months has been accredited by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. The Level 3 certificate for work with children in early years or playwork is aimed at experienced early years practitioners, childcare workers and playworkers who have been working in a Level 3 role but do not hold a formal Level 3 qualification, and for those who gained qualifications before the Children Act 1989.

The number of support staff working in maintained nurseries and schools

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  • Wednesday, September 17, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The number of support staff working in maintained nurseries and schools, including special schools and pupil referral units, in England has risen by 8,400 to reach 225,400, while there are 16,000 more teaching assistants bringing the total to 122,400, according to Government statistics published last week. The data on the school workforce up to January 2003 also revealed that the number of regular teachers in the nursery and primary sectors remained at 197,400, while the number of occasional teachers fell by 1,700 to 8,400, bringing the total number of teachers down to 205,800. Teacher vacancies in primary and nursery schools went down by 690 to 1,110 in January, a vacancy rate of 0.6 per cent.

Change nurseries now, parents told

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  • Wednesday, September 17, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Independent schools in England have been asked not to disrupt young children's early years education by putting pressure on their parents to move them in order to secure a place at their future school. The call was made last week by the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) after a day nursery in Cambridgeshire reported that two private schools had been urging parents to take their children out of the nursery and enrol them at the school instead.

Fenced in

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  • Wednesday, September 17, 2003
    • | Nursery World
For the children of Cherry Trees Montessori near Wetherby, West Yorkshire, making music, painting murals and hanging out the washing is all in a day's work Last year we focused our developments on the outdoor area. We laid a tarmac surface and created a fence around the patch of land. Although the area is small, we feel we are maximising space and learning opportunities by using the fence to present equipment and activities to children.

Netherlands childcare sector runs into trouble

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  • Thursday, March 28, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Demand for childcare in the Netherlands has fallen sharply amid the economic crisis and cuts in childcare tax credits, leading to a huge rise in the number of centres going bankrupt.

Coram Family's Listening to Young Children training and development service

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  • Wednesday, June 29, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Coram Family's Listening to Young Children training and development service picked up a prestigious award for its excellence in education and training at the Charity Awards 2005 ceremony in London last week. Beatbullying, a charity dedicated to helping the victims of bullying, won the award in the Children and Young People category.

Best buy

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  • Wednesday, September 17, 2003
    • | Nursery World
We have ten sturdy wooden airports made from a combination of plywood and MDF (Hope, 42.95) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or envelope, marked Airport, to the address on page 3. Winners will be the first ten names drawn on 2 October.

Safeguards to ensure that the educational needs of the children

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  • Wednesday, June 19, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Safeguards to ensure that the educational needs of the children of asylum seekers will be assessed if a decision on their family's asylum application has not been reached by six months were promised last week by the home secretary, following criticism by MPs and children's charities. David Blunkett said children living in special accommodation centres would be assessed and the local educational provider and the child's parents would decide if it was in the child's best interests to move to a state school.

Bright Horizons acquires kidsunlimited

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  • Thursday, April 11, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Bright Horizons has bought nursery group kidsunlimited for 45m in a move that sees the second largest UK chain add 64 settings and a childcare voucher business.

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